Law,economics and evolutionary theory:state of the art and interdisciplinary perspectives&Peer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess 1
PART Ⅰ EVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES 33
1.The European Enlightenment,the Industrial Revolution,and modern economic growth&Joel Mokyr 33
2.The unbearable lightness of A - useful knowledge and economic growth&Thrainn Eggertsson 54
3.The Law Merchant's story:how romantic is it?&Bruce L.Benson 68
4.Path dependence:a foundational concept for historical social science&Paul A.David 88
PART Ⅱ EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN LAW AND ECONOMICS 111
5.System and evolution in corporate governance&Simon Deakin and Fabio Carvalho 111
6.Constitutional possibility and constitutional evolution&Eric A.Posner 131
7.The expressive power of adjudication in an evolutionary context&Richard H.McAdams 156
8.Forces shaping the evolution of private legal systems&Amitai Aviram 183
9.Legal evolution between stability and change&Martina Eckardt 202
10.The genesis of law:on the paradox of law's origin and its supplement&Marc Amstutz 226
11.Gene-culture co-evolutionary theory and the evolution of legal behavior and institutions&Bart Du Laing 248
12.Making evolutionary theory useful for legal actors&Mauro Zamboni 270
PART Ⅲ TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND EVOLUTIONARY GOVERNANCE 297
13.Transnational commercial law,multi-level legal systems,and evolutionary economics&Wolfgang Kerber 297
14.Darwin at work:how to explain legal change in transnational and European private law&Jan M.Smits 322
15.Linking extra-legal codes to law:the role of international standards and other off-the-rack regimes&Erich Schanze 335
16.Transnational governance and evolutionary theory&Gralf-Peter Calliess,Jorg Freiling and Moritz Renner 353
Index 369