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The Farcical Samaritan’S Dilemma, André Douglas Pond Cummings
The Farcical Samaritan’S Dilemma, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development
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This article explores one of the foundational pillar theories of Law and Economics and specifically Public Choice Theory as espoused by Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan: the “Samaritan’s Dilemma.” Using the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, Buchanan imagines a “dilemma” faced by the Good Samaritan when encountering a beaten and bloodied man left to die on the road to Jericho. Using Game Theory, Buchanan constructs a moral quandary that the man from Samaria must necessarily resolve within himself in deciding ultimately whether to lend aid to the beaten man left to die.
Law and Economics, born in the …
Foreword: Racial Capitalism As Legal Analysis, Jay Hedges
Foreword: Racial Capitalism As Legal Analysis, Jay Hedges
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development
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In 2010, the Journal of Legal Commentary was renamed the Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development (JCRED) to reflect its status as the official journal of the Ron Brown Center for Civil Rights here at St. John’s University School of Law. From then on, the Journal has been dedicated to exploring issues of social, racial, and economic justice in the law. Thus, JCRED is situated to be a publication that breaches the divide that has held so much power over legal scholarship through the years. That divide is the segregation of issues of Public Law and Private Law, …