The legal-economic nexus : fundamental processes - Samuels, Warren J., 1933- (London ; New York : Routledge, 2007)
Introduction : belief and power -- The legal-economic nexus -- The nature and sources of rights -- Markets and their social construction -- Joseph J. Spengler's concept of the'problem of order' : a reconsideration and extension -- The status of the status quo : the Buchanan Colloquium -- The problem of the status of the status quo : some comments -- With James M. Buchanan, two views of government : a conversation -- Some problems in the use of language in economics -- Poletown and Hathcock : an essay on some problems in the language of the law -- With A. Allan Schmid and James D. Shaffer : an evolutionary approach to law and economics -- The rule of law and the capture and use of government in a world of inequality -- With Marianne Johnson and Kirk Johnson, the Duke of Argyll and Edwin L. Godkin as precursors to Hayek on the relation of ignorance to policy, parts 1-4 -- With Kirk D. Johnson and Marianne Johnson, the Duke of Argyll and Henry George : land ownership and governance -- The pervasive proposition,'what is, is, and ought to be' : a critique -- What is, is what? -- Professional policy advocacy or policy diffidence?
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Law and economics; Sociological jurisprudence; Law -- Philosophy