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Book Announcement: Cultivating Conscience by Stout

By Lawrence Solum

Cultivating Conscience
How Good Laws Make Good People
Lynn Stout
 

To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9272.html

Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things people do and how we can stop them. In this pathbreaking book, acclaimed law and economics scholar Lynn Stout argues that this focus neglects the crucial role our better impulses could play in society. Rather than lean on the power of greed to shape laws and human behavior, Stout contends that we should rely on the force of conscience.

Cloth | $27.95 / £19.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-13995-1
e-Book | $27.95 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-3600-0

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on November 03, 2010 (boomark / email).