Customary law and economics /
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Published: |
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited,
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Publisher Address: | Cheltenham, UK : |
Publication Dates: | [2014] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Economic approaches to law ;
42 An Elgar research collection |
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Carrier Form: | xv, 761 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9781782549697 : 1782549692 |
Index Number: | K282 |
CLC: | D90-056 |
Call Number: | D90-056/C987 |
Contents: |
The spontaneous evolution of commercial law / The myth of the customary law merchant / The medieval law merchant / The emergence of English commercial law: analysis inspired by the Ottoman experience / Coordination, commitment, and enforcement: the case of the merchant guild / The role of institutions in the revival of trade: the law merchant, private judges, and the Champagne fairs / A theory of the ethnically homogeneous middleman group: an institutional alternative to contract law / Opting out of the legal system: extralegal contractual relations in the diamond industry / Merchant law in a merchant court: rethinking the Code's search for immanent business norms / The Tuna Court: law and norms in the world's premier fish market / The questionable empirical basis of Article 2's incorporation strategy: a preliminary study / Structural adjudication and the new law merchant: a model of decentralized law / A hypothesis of wealth-maximizing norms: evidence from the whaling industry / Customary international law / A theory of customary international law / Understanding the resemblance between modern and traditional customary international law / Inefficient customs in international law / Stability and change in international customary law / Withdrawing from international custom / Customary law and articulation theories / |