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Présentation de l'éditeur : "The past twenty years have witnessed a surge in behavioral studies of law and law-related issues. These studies have challenged the application of the rational-choice model to legal analysis and introduced a more accurate and empirically grounded mod…
The market economy, the rule of law and the path of development -- All in the family: gender and identity within the household -- Group rights, distributional conflicts and the making of unequal identities -- National and sub-national institutions -- The interface between the gl…
Rules, Rubrics and Riches highlights the limitations of existing approaches to understanding the relationship of the law to the process of development. It interrogates neoclassical economic thinking that draws on the narrow rubric of self-interest to understand the acquisition o…
"A GlassHouse book."
"Each of the chapters was presented at a conference in the spring of 1995, sponsored by Duquesne University and George Mason University"--Preface.
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From the world's first stock markets in the seventeenth century, to private policing in the early days of San Francisco, to the millions of credit card transactions and the complex financial markets governed by private rules today, 'Private Governance' makes the case that privat…
In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud argued that civilization itself is the major source of human unhappiness, inhibiting instincts and generating guilt. In Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz shows how the "economic architecture" that produced globa…