The Legal-Economic Nexus : Fundamental Processes (Paperback)

Part 1: Rights, Markets and Power: The Legal-Economic Nexus  1. Introduction: Belief and Power  2. The Legal-Economic Nexus  3. The Nature and Sources of Rights  4. Markets and their Social Construction  Part 2: The Problem of Order  5. Joseph J. Spengler's Concept of the 'Problem of Order': A Reconsideration and Extension  6. The Status of the Status Quo: The Buchanan Colloquium  7. The Problem of the Status of the Status Quo: Some Comments  8. Two Views of Government: A Conversation  Part 3: Language, Social Choice and Order  9. Some Problems in the Use of Language in Economics  10. Poletown and Hathcock: An Essay on Some Problems in the Language of the Law  11. An Evolutionary Approach to Law and Economics  12. The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality  Part 4: Land and Governance: The Transformation of Order  13. The Duke of Argyll and Edwin L. Godkin as Precursors to Hayek on the Relation of Ignorance to Policy, Parts I-IV  14. The Duke of Argyll and Henry George: Land Ownership and Governance  Part 5: The Subtleties of Policy Making  15. The Pervasitve Proposition, 'What is, is and Ought to Be': A Critique  16. What is, is What?  17. Professional Policy Advocacy or Policy Diffidence?