Law and Social Norms / / Eric Posner.
What is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and nonlegal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction: Law and Collective Action
- Part one Models of Nonlegal Collective Action
- 2 A Model of Cooperation and the Production of Social Norms
- 3 Extensions, Objections, and Alternative Theories
- Part two Legal Applications
- 4 Gifts and Gratuitous Promises
- 5 Family Law and Social Norms
- 6 Status, Stigma, and the Criminal Law
- 7 Voting, Political Participation, and Symbolic Behavior
- 8 Racial Discrimination and Nationalism
- 9 Contract Law and Commercial Behavior
- Part three Normative Implications
- 10 Efficiency and Distributive Justice
- 11 Incommensurability, Commodification, and Money
- 12 Autonomy, Privacy, and Community
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Index