Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2003
Abstract
Throughout most of this introductory Article, we will focus our arguments primarily on economics and law and economics. We believe, however, that the implications of our inquiry extend far beyond those domains. The tendencies we hope to elucidate find their origins in the human animal, not in any particular legal theoretic perspective. It happens that these tendencies are especially prominent in law and economics, currently the dominant theoretical paradigm for creating and analyzing legal policy. But the relevance of our thesis is not confined to one approach , or even to legal-political questions. All humans are more or less implicated, whether they are liberals or conservatives, legal economists or critical theorists, students or scholars, producers or consumers, elected officials or citizens.
Automated Citation
Jon Hanson and David Yosifon,
The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture
, 152 U. Pa. L. Rev. 129
(2003),
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