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  title info:
    title: Efficiency Instead of Justice?
    sub title: Searching for the Philosophical Foundations of the Economic Analysis of Law
  name:
    name part: Mathis, Klaus.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Shannon, Deborah.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 220 p. online resource.
  abstract: Economic analysis of law is an interesting and challenging attempt to employ the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. According to Richard A. Posner it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. This would maximize economic efficiency and social wealth. In this work, the lawyer and economist Klaus Mathis critically appraises Posner’s normative justification of the efficiency paradigm from the perspective of the philosophy of law. Posner acknowledges the influences of Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, whom he views as the founders of normative economics. He subscribes to Smith’s faith in the market as an ideal allocation model, and to Bentham’s ethical consequentialism. Finally, aligning himself with John Rawls’s contract theory, he seeks to legitimize his concept of wealth maximization with a consensus theory approach. In his interdisciplinary study, the author points out the possibilities as well as the limits of economic analysis of law. It provides a method of analysing the law which, while very helpful, is also rather specific. The efficiency arguments therefore need to be incorporated into a process for resolving value conflicts. In a democracy this must take place within the political decision-making process. In this clearly written work, Klaus Mathis succeeds in making even non-economists more aware of the economic aspects of the law. "Mathis gives a succinct and lucid presentation of the economic theory of law, and of the problems associated with its application as a normative theory in law. At the same time, he rightly draws attention to the advantages associated with this approach, and provides a helpful and thoroughly ambitious introduction to its fundamental principles." Prof. Dr. Jan-R. Sieckmann, Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (ARSP),…
  table of contents: Economic Foundations -- Homo Economicus -- Efficiency Criteria -- Economic Analysis of Law -- Philosophical Foundations -- Adam Smith’ Moral Philosophy -- Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism -- John Rawls’s Theory of Justice -- Wealth, Efficiency and Justice -- Richard Posner’s Theory of Wealth Maximization -- Justice and Efficiency -- Conclusions.
  note: by Klaus Mathis, Deborah Shannon.
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Law
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Economic theory
  subject:
    topic: Law and economics
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: Law and Economics
  subject:
    topic: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  subject:
    topic: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: HB73
  classification: 330
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Law and Philosophy Library, 84
  identifier: 9781402097980
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9798-0
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204184244.0
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