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This chapter presents a brief introduction to law and economics and its intellectual history, and then it describes three modes of analysis: positive, normative, and interpretive. Much law-and-economics scholarship emphasizes the first two modes, but this book emphasizes the third, which is new to many economists and of paramount interest to lawyers. Next, the chapter explains the organization of the book. Every public law grows from six fundamental processes of government: bargaining, voting, entrenching, delegating, adjudicating, and enforcing. The chapter describes these processes and explains their centrality to public law. It concludes with a road map. The book devotes two chapters to each process mentioned here, with the first chapter in each pair presenting economic theory divided into three parts: positive, normative, and interpretive. The second chapter in each pair applies the theory to topics in public law. |
