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The Growing Pains Of Behavioral Law And Economics, Thomas S. Ulen
The Growing Pains Of Behavioral Law And Economics, Thomas S. Ulen
Vanderbilt Law Review
We are at the beginning of behavioral law and economics. We now see only dimly the outlines of the elaborate theory of decision making that is to come. We are like the independent scholars who examined the various parts of a very large animal and then tried to put together their reports to describe that animal; we each have bits and pieces of the elephant but no clear image of the entire beast. But we should not despair. We must remember that this behavioralist discipline is, as scholarly developments go, young. Indeed, the conventional law and economics model, to which …
Comment: The Future Of Behavioral Economic Analysis Of Law, Jennifer Arlen
Comment: The Future Of Behavioral Economic Analysis Of Law, Jennifer Arlen
Vanderbilt Law Review
Behavioral economic analysis of law presents an important challenge to conventional law and economics, strengthened in part by the fact that conventional law and economics is itself a behavioral approach to law. Indeed, conventional law and economics can be viewed as the first widely-adopted behavioral approach to law. A central contribution of Ronald Coase's pathbreaking article was the claim that one cannot determine the effect of a law by simply looking at the law itself--at the conduct the law requires. Instead, one must determine how people will respond to the law.' Legal rules, he argued, do not dictate behavior-they simply …
Can There Be A Behavioral Law And Economics?, Samuel Issacharoff
Can There Be A Behavioral Law And Economics?, Samuel Issacharoff
Vanderbilt Law Review
The emergence of the modern law and economics analysis generally is dated to the early 1960s with the publication of seminal work by Ronald Coase' and subsequently by Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed. These articles laid the foundation for the relation between legal rules, wealth maximization, and transaction costs, which provided the pivotal application of economic analysis to legal problems. However, the current sweep of law and economics would have been inconceivable without Gary Becker's insight into the application of neoclassical comparisons of marginal utility to the stuff of everyday life. Becker's analysis of routine decision making in terms of …
Putting Rational Actors In Their Place: Economics And Phenomenology, Edward L. Rubin
Putting Rational Actors In Their Place: Economics And Phenomenology, Edward L. Rubin
Vanderbilt Law Review
The model of human behavior that is used in microeconomics is both normative and descriptive. As a normative model, it is an historical successor to the medieval concept of grace and the Renaissance concept of virtue. As a descriptive model, it is a theory of human psychology. Economists tend to deemphasize this point be- cause psychology is a notoriously "soft" science, and economists aspire to the "hard" sciences' precision. Nonetheless, any model that states the way human beings behave under specified circumstances is necessarily a theory of the way the human mind functions, and thus be- longs in the category …