TY - BOOK AU - Samuels, Warren J AU - Johnson, Kirk D TI - Legal-economic nexus SN - 9780415493604 U1 - 340.115 PY - 2007///, CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Buchanan, James M. N1 - Law and economics. Sociological jurisprudence. Law -- Philosophy; The legal-economic nexus -- The nature and sources of rights -- Markets and their social construction -- Joseph J. Spengler's concept of the "problem of order" : a reconsideration and extension -- The status of the status quo : the Buchanan colloquium -- The problem of the status of the status quo : some comments -- Two views of government : a conversation / Warren J. Samuels, James M. Buchanan -- Some problems in the use of language in economics -- Poletown and Hathcock : an essay on some problems in the language of the law -- An evolutionary approach to law and economics / Warren J. Samuels, A. Allan Schmid, James D. Schaffer -- The rule of law and the capture and use of government in a world of inequality -- The Duke of Argyll and Edwin L. Godkin as precursors to Hayek on the relation of ignorance to policy / Warren J. Samuels, Kirk D. Johnson, Marianne Johnson -- The Duke of Argyll and Henry George : land ownership and governance / Warren J. Samuels, Kirk D. Johnson, Marianne Johnson -- The pervasive proposition, "what is, is and ought to be" : a critique -- What is, is what? -- Professional policy advocacy or policy diffidence? : a point of view N2 - Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought in the US, explores the dynamic relationship between economics, law and polity ER -