The jurisprudential niche of law and economics -- Chicago law and economics -- Public choice theory -- Institutional law and economics -- The new institutional economics -- Branching out : New Haven, Modern Civic Republican, and Austrian approaches -- Social norms and law and economics

Although Ronald Coase is popularly associated with the Chicago School, his approach belongs to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century British tradition. In this essay, we address whether the Coasean or traditional British methodology can offer improvements to current methods. Current...

Tiziano Raffaelli (Pisa 1950) was a widely esteemed scholar in the field of the history and methodology of economics, who died suddenly in January 2016 while still in the midst of working and of developing projects for new lines of research. He was a philosopher of science by formation and a...