Law's Order - Friedman David D.
Law's Order - Friedman David D. What does economics have to do with law? Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life…
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Law's Order - Friedman David D.
What does economics have to do with law? Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment.
Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims.
This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting.Drawing on numerous commonsense examples, in addition to his extensive knowledge of Chicago-school economics, David D. Friedman offers a spirited defense of the economic view of law. He clarifies the relationship between law and economics in clear prose that is friendly to students, lawyers,