Legal-economic nexus

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The legal-economic nexus -- The nature and sources of rights -- Markets and their social construction -- Joseph J. Spengler's concept of the "problem of order" : a reconsideration and extension -- The status of the status quo : the Buchanan colloquium -- The problem of the status of the status quo : some comments -- Two views of government : a conversation / Warren J. Samuels, James M. Buchanan -- Some problems in the use of language in economics -- Poletown and Hathcock : an essay on some problems in the language of the law -- An evolutionary approach to law and economics / Warren J. Samuels, A. Allan Schmid, James D. Schaffer -- The rule of law and the capture and use of government in a world of inequality -- The Duke of Argyll and Edwin L. Godkin as precursors to Hayek on the relation of ignorance to policy / Warren J. Samuels, Kirk D. Johnson, Marianne Johnson -- The Duke of Argyll and Henry George : land ownership and governance / Warren J. Samuels, Kirk D. Johnson, Marianne Johnson -- The pervasive proposition, "what is, is and ought to be" : a critique -- What is, is what? -- Professional policy advocacy or policy diffidence? : a point of view.