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A Case Against The Kantian Retributivist Theory Of Punishment: A Response To Professor Pugsley, Leon Pearl
A Case Against The Kantian Retributivist Theory Of Punishment: A Response To Professor Pugsley, Leon Pearl
Hofstra Law Review
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Individual Rights And The Social Good: A Choice-Theoretic Analysis, Steven Strasnick
Individual Rights And The Social Good: A Choice-Theoretic Analysis, Steven Strasnick
Hofstra Law Review
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Individual Rights And Collective Rationality: Some Implications For Economic Analysis Of Law, Bruce Chapman
Individual Rights And Collective Rationality: Some Implications For Economic Analysis Of Law, Bruce Chapman
Hofstra Law Review
In recent years there has been much discussion of two theorems in economics that relate individual rights to Pareto optimality. In the area of law and economics, Ronald Coase is well known for demonstrating that in a world without transaction costs bargaining will always result in a Pareto-efficient outcome, whatever the initial distribution of rights. In social choice theory, however, Amartya Sen has shown that for certain configurations of individual preferences, the reasonable exercise of individual rights can lead to outcomes that are Pareto-inferior to other outcomes that are attainable. Clearly, there is some tension between these two results. The …
Social Choice Theory And The Imperfectability Of A Legal Order, Allan Gibbard
Social Choice Theory And The Imperfectability Of A Legal Order, Allan Gibbard
Hofstra Law Review
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Human Motivation: The Inadequacy Of Economists' Models, Alfred F. Mackay
Human Motivation: The Inadequacy Of Economists' Models, Alfred F. Mackay
Hofstra Law Review
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