Calabresi and the Intellectual History of Law and Economics

Authors

Keith N. Hylton, Boston University School of LawFollow

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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

ISSN

0025-4282

Publisher

Maryland Law Review

Language

en-US

Abstract

This essay traces the vein of thought represented by Calabresi's "The Costs of Accidents", both backward in time to examine its sources, and forward to its impact on current scholarship. I focus on three broad topics: positive versus normative law and economics, positivist versus anti-positivist thinking in law, and the assumption of rationality in law and economics.

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Keith N. Hylton, Calabresi and the Intellectual History of Law and Economics , in 64 Maryland Law Review 85 (2005).
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