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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799247503321

Titolo

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Alain Marciano, Giovanni Battista Ramello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

1-4614-7883-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3200 p.)

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Economics

Management science

Law and economics

Economics, general

Law and Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

General -- Basic Areas of Law -- Regulation and Business Law -- Other Substantive Areas of Law -- Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behaviour.

Sommario/riassunto

Law and Economics deals with the economic analysis of legal relations, legal provisions, laws and regulations and is a research field which has a long tradition in economics. It was lost after the expulsion of some of the leading economists from Germany during 1933 to 1938, but then revived in Chicago.  Both the subject of Law of Economics and the need for a concise Encyclopedia is particularly relevant in Europe today.  Currently in the European Union there are several different legal cultures: the Anglo-Saxon legal framework, the German legal framework, which for example also includes Greece, and the Roman legal family—three jurisdictions which have to be covered with one and the same theory. In the EU, the task of the European Commission to interact with the various European jurisdictions means different legal cultures collaborating and some degree of harmonization is necessary. The result is an immediate need, if only for the science, to show how a given problem is solved in each legal tradition and jurisdiction. This Encyclopedia provides both a common language and precise definitions



in the field, which will be useful in the future to avoid misunderstandings during harmonization of EU Law.