| Law and Public Choice: A Critical Introduction Contributor(s): Farber, Daniel a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226238032 ISBN-13: 9780226238036 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $27.72 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1991 Annotation: The focus of public law is legislation. Constitutional law studies the limits on legislative power; administrative law studies how statutes are implemented by agencies; fields like discrimination law and environmental law focus on how to apply particular federal statutes. Yet, even though legislation is central to public law, legal scholars have only recently begun to devote serious attention to the legislative process. This book is intended to help fill that gap, by considering how some of the 'new learning' from the social sciences can illuminate issues of public law. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 338.473 |
| LCCN: 90044285 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.07" W x 9.03" (0.60 lbs) 169 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Law and Public Choice, Daniel Farber and Philip Frickey present a remarkably rich and accessible introduction to the driving principles of public choice. In this, the first systematic look at the implications of social choice for legal doctrine, Farber and Frickey carefully review both the empirical and theoretical literature about interest group influence and provide a nonmathematical introduction to formal models of legislative action. Ideal for course use, this volume offers a balanced and perceptive analysis and critique of an approach which, within limits, can illuminate the dynamics of government decision-making. "Law and Public Choice is a most valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature. It should be of great interest to lawyers, political scientists, and all others interested in issues at the intersection of government and law."--Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School |