Economic Transplants: On Lawmaking for Corporations and Capital Markets

ISBN-13: 9781107081802 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 242 str.

Katja Langenbucher

Opis

Offers a comprehensive theory on the risks and benefits of incorporating economic theory in capital markets and corporate lawmaking.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Promises of Economic Transplants: 1. Economic methodology, its scientific turn and the question 'which economics'; 2. Economic imperialism; 3. Law and its methodology; 4. The promises of economic transplants; Part II. Economic Transplants and Legislation: 5. The promises and the legislator; 6. Formal modelling and the problem of predictions; 7. Empirical work and the problem of descriptions; 8. Promises revisited and embracing complexity; Part III. Economic Transplants and Adjudication: 9. Promises and the judiciary; 10. Promises revisited. Conclusion and a different promise.