A Review of Steven Shavell's Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law

• Autores: Richard A. Posner
• Localización: Journal of economic literature, ISSN 0022-0515, Vol. 44, Nº 2, 2006, págs. 405-414
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Steven Shavell's Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2004) is a major theoretical contribution to "law and economics," the applied field of economics that studies the economic properties and consequences of legal doctrines and institutions. It is a field of immense practical importance, but unfamiliar to many economists--a situation that Shavell's book bids fair to rectify. This review essay situates Shavell's book in the history of economic scholarship about law and uses the book as a springboard for speculation about new directions in that scholarship.