NCJ Number
139974
Date Published
1983
Length
415 pages
Annotation
The purpose of this book is to persuade the reader of the power of the economic approach to subjects not typically considered economic: justice and efficiency, the origins of justice, privacy and related interests, and the Supreme Court and discrimination.
Abstract
This book represents a broadening of interests to include aspects of social experience beyond the strictly legal, yet the book evolves from the economic analysis of law. The first section addresses the relationship between the concept of efficiency as wealth maximization that has guided the positive economic analysis of the common law and an acceptable concept of justice. Subsequent chapters deal with the social and legal order of primitive and ancient societies, the development of an economic theory of privacy and related interests, and affirmative action as the cutting edge of legal policy toward discrimination. 883 footnotes