The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics

by Kaushik Basu

Book Overview

A leading economist offers a radically new approach to the economic analysis of the law

In The Republic of Beliefs, Kaushik Basu, one of the world's leading economists, argues that the traditional economic analysis of the law has significant flaws and has failed to answer certain critical questions satisfactorily. Why are good laws drafted but never implemented? When laws are unenforced, is it a failure of the law or the enforcers?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691177686
• ISBN13: 9780691177687
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"