Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations
Fifty years after the famous essay “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960) by the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, Law and Economics seems to have become the lingua franca of American jurisprudence, and although its influence on European jurisprudence is only moderate by comparison, it has also gained popul...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2012.
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| Series: | Law and Philosophy Library,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Authors
- Introduction
- Part I: Law and Economics
- Consequentialism in Law; Klaus Mathis
- Consequence-based Arguments in Legal Reasoning: a Jurisprudential Preface to Law and Economics; Péter Cserne
- Is the Rationality of Judicial Judgements Jeopardized by Cognitive Biases and Empathy? Klaus Mathis and Fabian Diriwächter
- Part II: Law and Sustainability
- Our Responsibility towards Future Generations; Paolo Becchi
- Future Generations in John Rawls’ Theory of Justice; Klaus Mathis
- What Is It Like to Be Unborn? Our Common Fate with Future Generations; Malte-Christian Gruber
- Cultural Heritage Preservation and Socio-environmental Sustainability: Sustainable Development, Human Rights and Citizenship Milena Petters Melo
- Part III: Law, Economics, and Sustainability
- Discounting the Future? Cost-Benefit Analysis and Sustainability; Klaus Mathis
- A Critical Review of “Efficiency Ethics”: the Case of Climate Economics; Felix Ekardt
- Valuing the Invaluable? Valuation of Human Life in Cost-Efficiency Assessments of Regulatory Interventions; Balz Hammer.
