Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Part One. Introduction -- Law as a Policy Instrument : Comparative Perspective -- Political Intentions and Legal Measures: The Determinants of Policy Decisions -- Part Two. Regulation -- Regulation as an Instrument of Economic Policy -- Regulation and the Crisis of Legalisation in the United States -- Part Three. Subsidies -- Subsidies as an Instrument of Economic Policy -- State Aids: Their Field of Operation and Legal Regime -- Part Four. The Public Sector -- The Public Sector as Object and Instrument of Economic Policy -- Public Enterprises and Economic Policy: A Comment -- Part Five. Comparative Legal Systems -- The Influence of Legal Systems on Modes of Implementation of Economic Policy -- Socialism, Legalisation and Delegalisation -- Part Six. The Time Element -- Short and Long-Term Policy Objectives and the Choice of Instruments and Measures -- Temporal Pluralism and Legal Relativism Contribution to the Study of De-Legalisation -- Part Seven. Private Ordering -- Economic Policy: State and Private Ordering -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Index