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Guide To Law And Literature For Teachers, Students, And Researchers, Paul J. Heald
Guide To Law And Literature For Teachers, Students, And Researchers, Paul J. Heald
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Companion text to Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse
Economics As One Of The Humanities; An Ecumenical Response To Weisberg, West, And White, Paul J. Heald
Economics As One Of The Humanities; An Ecumenical Response To Weisberg, West, And White, Paul J. Heald
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The Law and Literature movement seems to have a deadly adversary: the Law and Economics movement. Several of the most respected literary lawyers have recently argued that economic discourse subverts the goals of humanistic scholarship. Richard Weisberg decries, for example, “the insurgency of ‘free market’ economics, a disgracefully self-serving system of ethical reductionism and human evasion [that has] attracted masses of practitioners away from the essence of their fields, away from the passions, the hopes, the reality of the world around them.” Robin West has criticized “economic man” for his “empathic impotence,” and has suggested replacing him with a more …