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"Contents" [2011] ELECD 232; in Zumbansen, Peer; Calliess, Gralf-Peter (eds), "Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory

Editor(s): Zumbansen, Peer; Calliess, Gralf-Peter

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848448230

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii
Foreword ix
Acknowledgements x

Law, economics and evolutionary theory: state of the art and interdisciplinary
perspectives 1
Peer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess

PART I EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND HISTORICAL
TRAJECTORIES

1. The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and modern
economic growth 33
Joel Mokyr
2. The unbearable lightness of A ­ useful knowledge and economic growth 54
Thráinn Eggertsson
3. The Law Merchant's story: how romantic is it? 68
Bruce L. Benson
4. Path dependence: a foundational concept for historical social science 88
Paul A. David

PART II EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN LAW AND ECONOMICS

5. System and evolution in corporate governance 111
Simon Deakin and Fabio Carvalho
6. Constitutional possibility and constitutional evolution 131
Eric A. Posner
7. The expressive power of adjudication in an evolutionary context 156
Richard H. McAdams
8. Forces shaping the evolution of private legal systems 183
Amitai Aviram
9. Legal evolution between stability and change 202
Martina Eckardt
10. The genesis of law: on the paradox of law's origin and its supplément 226
Marc Amstutz
11. Gene-culture co-evolutionary theory and the evolution of legal behavior
and institutions 248
Bart Du Laing


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12. Making evolutionary theory useful for legal actors 270
Mauro Zamboni

PART III TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND EVOLUTIONARY
GOVERNANCE

13. Transnational commercial law, multi-level legal systems, and evolutionary
economics 297
Wolfgang Kerber
14. Darwin at work: how to explain legal change in transnational and
European private law ...