Law and Social Economics: Essays in Ethical Values for Theory, Practice, and Policy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137444301)

This edited volume is the first collection of essays exploring the intersection of social economics and the law, providing alternatives to neoclassical law-and-economics and applying them to real-world issues. Law is a social enterprise concerned with values such as justice, dignity, and equality, as well as efficiency - which is the same way that social economists conceive of the economy itself. Social economists and legal scholars alike need to acknowledge the interrelationship between the economy and the law in a broader ethical context than enabled by mainstream law-and-economics. The ten chapters in Law and Social Economics, written by an international assortment of scholars from economics, philosophy, and law, employ a wide variety of approaches and methods to show how a more ethically nuanced approach to economics and the law can illuminate both fields and open up new avenues for studying social-economic behavior, policy, and outcomes in all their ethical and legal complexity.

Author: M. White
ISBN-10: 1137444304
ISBN-13: 9781137444301
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 217
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d