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Backhaus, Jürgen G. --- "Introduction" [1999] ELECD 7; in Backhaus, G. Jürgen (ed), "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999)

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781858985169

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): Backhaus, Jürgen G.

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Introduction
Jurgen G. Backhaus


This book, I am told, needs an introduction. I therefore hasten to supply a guide to
the reader who may find the volume difficult to read, and who has to be prepared
for a journey through the most varied and partly inhospitable terrain, in which the
ultimate goal and purpose of every single step can hardly be clear to him at every
moment.

The purpose of this companion is to provide a reference work for the active
researcher in law and economics. In composing this companion, care has
been taken to avoid a possible overlap with other works in the field. In
particular, this work does not aim at duplicating the ambitious New Palgrave
in Law and Econumics, which aims to balance the pointedly formal focus of
the New Palgrave by emphasizing institutional economics.2A comprehensive
set of articles, mainly in the Chicago tradition of law and economic^,^ allows
us to focus on other mainly European aspects of law and economics and the
historical sources of law and economics research. This explains the structure
of the C~mpanion.~
The Companion falls into two parts, the first of which covers main areas of
law and economics, including basic issues as well as different sources of the
law, while the second offers twenty-six scholarly biographies of main figures
in law and economics. These biographies have been written with a view to
allowing further research into neglected areas in the field which have been
taken up at some ...