Law and Economics Toward Social Justice

Book details for Law and Economics

Series: Research in Law and Economics v. 24

Contributor(s): Dana Gold (author),

Format: Hardback, 229 x 152 x 30mm , 300 pp, Illustrations

Publication date: 08 May 2009

Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

ISBN: 9781848553347

Price: €113.95

Buy Now »

 

Synopsis

This volume explores the relationship between law and economics principles and the promotion of social justice. By social justice, we mean a vision of society that embraces more than traditional economic efficiency. Such a vision might include, for example, a reduction of subordination and discrimination based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or class; increased wealth dispersion throughout all sectors of society; a safe and healthy environment; worker rights; and, a flourishing political democracy. The volume chapters here fall into four main categories, Assumptions of Law & Economics; Law & Economics: Implications of Behavioralism; Economics and Corporate Governance: Finding the Holes; and, Gender, Class and Race: Implications of and Alternatives to the Dominant Economic Paradigm. In addition, most of the chapters invoke the lens of corporate law theory or the corporate context as part of their analysis of the intersection of economics and social justice.