Origins of Law and Economics Essays by the Founding Fathers
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Biographical note
Edited by Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, US and Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy and the late Charles K. Rowley, former General Director, The Locke Institute, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Director, Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University, US<i>'This volume is very worthwhile to read for getting a much better understanding of the US origins of law and economics.'</i>
- Wolfgang Kerber, Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik,
<i>'I recommend this book in the strongest terms to all scholars interested in the history of law and economics. . . for bringing together these essays and for attempting to place the field in historical perspective, the editors deserve our thanks. . . For insider perspectives on the evolution of the field, to get a sense for the different conceptions of what it means to do economics, to do law, and to do law and economics, the book makes for a most interesting read.'</i>
- Steven G. Medema, Review of Austrian Economics,
<i>'Scholars at all stages of their careers will be interested in seeing how the field of law and economics has developed over almost a half century - the topics that were of interest, the methodology used, the ways in which problems were defined, tackled, solved. This is a major contribution to the intellectual history of economics and of law and economics.'</i>
- Donald N. Dewees, History of Political Economy,
<i>'This book of specially commissioned, original papers, by two major</i>