Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (1)
- Austrian economics (1)
- Behavioral economics (1)
- Collective Efficacy (1)
- Community (1)
-
- Coordination (1)
- Coordination games (1)
- Culture (1)
- Fair Housing (1)
- Foreclosure Prevention (1)
- Hip-Hop (1)
- Historic Preservation (1)
- Housing (1)
- Individualism (1)
- Information (1)
- Integration (1)
- Knowledge (1)
- Law & Economics (1)
- Law and economics (1)
- Methodological individualism (1)
- Neoclassical economics (1)
- Network effects (1)
- Network externalities (1)
- People vs. Place (1)
- Predatory Private Equity (1)
- Rationality (1)
- Social Capital (1)
- Social Networks (1)
- Social norms (1)
- Transferable (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Law
Hip-Hop And Housing: Revisiting Culture, Urban Space, Power, And Law, Lisa T. Alexander
Hip-Hop And Housing: Revisiting Culture, Urban Space, Power, And Law, Lisa T. Alexander
Faculty Scholarship
U.S. housing law is finally receiving its due attention. Scholars and practitioners are focused primarily on the subprime mortgage and foreclosure crises. Yet the current recession has also resurrected the debate about the efficacy of place-based lawmaking. Place-based laws direct economic resources to low-income neighborhoods to help existing residents remain in place and to improve those areas. Law-and-economists and staunch integrationists attack place-based lawmaking on economic and social grounds. This Article examines the efficacy of place-based lawmaking through the underutilized prism of culture. Using a sociolegal approach, it develops a theory of cultural collective efficacy as a justification for place-based …
Nonprofit Executive Compensation, Terri Lynn Helge, David M. Rosenberg
Nonprofit Executive Compensation, Terri Lynn Helge, David M. Rosenberg
Faculty Scholarship
Excessive compensation paid to nonprofit executives and board members is one of the key issues concerning charitable organizations that garner the attention of the general public and Congress. Charitable organizations may pay reasonable compensation to their directors, executive officers and employees for their services without violating applicable federal tax law or state law. The determination of reasonable compensation depends on several factors – the budget of the organization being the most significant factor. Other factors include the number of employees of the organization, the particular sector of the charitable community served by the organization, the geographic location of the organization, …
Beyond Individualism In Law And Economics, Robert B. Ahdieh
Beyond Individualism In Law And Economics, Robert B. Ahdieh
Faculty Scholarship
The study of law and economics was built upon two pillars. The first is the familiar assumption of individual rationality. The second, less familiar, is the principle of methodological individualism. Over the last twenty years, law and economics has largely internalized behavioral critiques of the rationality assumption. By contrast, the field has failed to appreciate the implications of growing challenges to its methodological individualism. Where social norms shape individual choices, network externalities are strong, coordination is the operative goal, or information is a substantial determinant of value, a methodology strongly oriented to the analysis of individuals overlooks at least as …