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: Legal Theory BlogRibstein on the Future of Law & Economics
By Lawrence Solum
Check out Larry Ribstein's post entitled More on the future of Law and Economics on Ideoblog. Here is a taste:
Just as there is a lot of bad law & ec being done by lawyers, so there is a lot of bad law & ec being done by economists because of their ignorance of the law and legal institutions. Careful law & ec lawyers can communicate with both the economists and the lawyers at the "retail" level. Forcing the work into math is going to create a ?language? barrier that could seriously impede the intellectual development of the field. The field will stagnate, and become as marginalized as the study of, say, literature has become.
Read Ribstein!
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).

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