Law, Economics, and Conflict / / ed. by Kaushik Basu, Robert C. Hockett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Basu, Kaushik,; Bolch, Kimberly B.,; Bos, Marieke,; Cornelisse, Peter A.,; Giraud, Gaël,; Hassoun, Nicole,; Hockett, Robert C.,; Hoff, Karla,; Listokin, Yair,; Long, Cheryl,; López-Calva, Luis F.,; Monga, Célestin,; Payne Carter, Susan,; Skiba, Paige Marta,; Swamy, Anand V.,; Thorbecke, Erik,; Walsh, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Basu, Kaushik,; Hockett, Robert C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.) :; 5 charts, 15 graphs

In Law, Economics, and Conflict, Kaushik Basu and Robert C. Hockett bring together international experts to offer new perspectives on how to take analytic tools from the realm of academic research out into the real world to address pressing policy questions. As the essays discuss, political polariza...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Law, Economics, and Conflict: An Introduction
• 1. The Interim Balance Sheet of Democracy: A Machiavellian Memo
• 2. The Third Function of Law: Its Power to Change Cultural Categories
• 3. Fighting Corruption in China: The Roles of Formal and Informal Institutions
• 4. Overreliance on Law: Rural Credit in India, 1875–2010
• 5. Forgotten Markets: The Importance of Pawnshops
• 6. New Technology, Increasing Returns, and the End of the Antitrust Century
• 7. Law and International Monetary Policy Regimes
• 8. Why Economics Is a Moral Science: Lifting the Veil of Ignorance in the Right Direction
• 9. Exchange Configurations and the Legal Framework
• 10. Reimagining Governance through the Role of Law: A Perspective from the World Development Report 2017
• 11. Beyond Law and Economics: Legitimate Distribution without Legislation?
• About the Contributors
• Index