History of Methodology in Economics and Law Volume 1
A selection of articles:
NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS
LAW AND ECONOMICS IN AUSTRIA
LAW AND ECONOMICS IN BELGIUM
LAW AND ECONOMICS IN DENMARK
Public Choice and Constitutional Political Economy
New Institutional Economics
Law and economics is quite a new field of research but there is a noticeable
increase in its influence in both legal and economic scholarship. In this book information is given about different aspects of the
organization of research and teaching in this area, in particular about the institutions, the current state of law and economics in academic life all over the
world, the basic publications providing more detailed information, Law and Economics Associations, and law and economics on the Internet.
Princeton University Press 1995
ISBN 0691037760
1 MB
325 pages
This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine.
