...Jeffrey L. Callen This study evaluates the extent to which the asset valuation arguments raised by medieval post-Talmudic legal scholars are consistent with modern contingent claims analysis. In particular, this study evaluates the arguments proposed by these scholars in order to rationalize...

...Alexandre Mendes Cunha The connection between economic and legal knowledge is an important gateway to the reflection on how Cameralist perspectives traveled within the framework of continental Europe enlightened reformism during the eighteenth century. This article focusses on the Iberian context...

... as the contingent valuation method. Initially, this method asked respondents directly about their willingness to pay for a realistically described recreational amenity. When contingent valuation became used for valuation studies of environmental and health issues in a regulatory and legal framework, initial support...

... hand, Commons followed Hohfeld and recognized that such concepts as property and inheritance actually represent an aggregation of numerous types of legal relations. Hohfeld's schema provided a powerful rhetorical and analytical tool whereby these highly abstract conceptions could be reduced...

... possible by the market itself. Character could replace administrative interventions. Chalmers saw well-intentioned administration, especially with respect to the poor laws, as both crowding out inner motivations and creating a focus for the fermenting of dissent over the terms of “legal charity.” Better...

... such a monetary estimate was most likely to be produced. That strategy cut across social and epistemic commitments of different segments of the economics discipline, raising questions about the different meanings of expertise, and the role of economists in the legal, business, and public domain. This paper aims...

... of such regulations. In the process, its efforts became linked with the legacy of systems analysis, leading to legal requirements for cost-benefit analysis of regulation and the expansion of executive-branch offices oriented toward economics—changes that opened doors to the future exchange of ideas between academe...

... and set important terms for a simultaneous criticism and valorization of Smithian economic ideas by the historical economists after 1848. Hildebrand, Schmoller, and others drew on understandings of sex and gender roles shaped by moral and legal philosophy, biology, and anthropology, as well within...

...Fabio Monsalve This paper will ascertain the theory of the just price, according to Juan de Lugo (1583–1660), the last great representative of the Scholastics. First we will draw up Lugo's “vision” of the just price, stressing the anthropological, moral, and legal foundations and emphasizing...

... . Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts. Yale Law Journal 70 ( March ): 499 -553. Clark , John Bates 1894 . The Modern Appeal to Legal Forces in Economic Life. American Economic Association Publications 9 . Coase , Ronald H 1959 . The Federal Communications...

... interest and with classical jurisprudence, however, are traceable into the distant past. Although a comparative legal and economic methodological approach may involve some analytical gymanstics, it offers the possibility of a functional overview of important characteristics...

..., and A. C. Pigou, for example, gave prominent play to the role of the law within a market system, and, of course, the study of the legal-economic process was the bread and butter of Institutionalists such as Robert Lee Hale, Walton Hamilton, and John R. Commons, as well as their Le­ gal...

.... the market price of bills of exchange; 2. the ratio between the quotations of the currencies circulating in the two countries, which we may define as “legal parity”; 3. the ratio between the “intrinsic values,” that is, between the actual pure...

.../00182702-1257460 Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 354  History of Political Economy 43:2 (2011) several alternative answers, drawing on the literatures in both law and economics. In legal scholarship, the puzzle of how property was born dates back at least to 1766, when William...

... the same observation still applies—to the whole of economics, to the field of law and economics, and to the field of law. Definitions of words encompass and give effect to theories. No one theory can an- swer all our questions, and no one definition can accommodate all the- ories. Legal-economic “reality...

.... Rowley, Charles K. 1993 . Liberty and the State . Aldershot, U.K.: Elgar Publishers. Samuels, Warren J. 1989 . The Legal-Economic Nexus. George Washington Law Review 57 (August): 1556 -78. Book Reviews 791 reception of Keynesianism...

.... And Director belie[ved] in the superiority of the market to political allocation of resources (30). But, he wrote almost nothing (32) and had no interest in the law or, for that matter, in legal problems (34). He can thus not have been the most decisive for the development of a field in which econom...

... economic thought (ca. 1880–1930).’ Journal of Political Economy 75 ( Oct. ): 706 -29. Commons , J. R. 1919 . Industrial goodwill . New York. Commons , J. R. 1924 . Legal foundations of capitalism . New York. Commons , J. R. 1934 . Institutional economics: its place...

... Press. Commons , John R. 1919 . Industrial Goodwill . New York: McGraw Hill. Commons , John R. . 1924 . Legal Foundations of Capitalism . New York: Macmillan. Commons , John R. . 1934 . Institutional Economics . New York: Macmillan. Corry , Bernard . 1968 . Henry...