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The Opening of American Law: Neoclassical Legal Thought, 1870-1970
The Opening of American Law Neoclassical Legal Thought 18701970
Author: Herbert Hovenkamp
Two Victorian Era intellectual movements changed the course of American legal thought: Darwinian natural selection and marginalist economics. The two movements rested on fundamentally inconsistent premises. Darwinism emphasized instinct, random selection, and determinism. Marginalism emphasized rational choice. Legal theory managed to accomm...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199331307
ISBN-10: 0199331308
Publication Date: 11/27/2014
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Book Type: Hardcover
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