Rules, Rubrics and Riches: The Interrelations between Legal Reform and International Development

by Shailaja Fennell

Rules, Rubrics and Riches highlights the limitations of existing approaches to understanding the relationship of the law to the process of development. It interrogates neoclassical economic thinking that draws on the narrow rubric of self-interest to understand the acquisition of riches. It takes issue with both the traditional 'law and development' movement, that was unable to shake colonial overtones, and the more recent 'law and economics' school...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415420350
• ISBN13: 9780415420358
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"