Colombatto, Enrico; Tavormina, Valerio - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 11, pp. 1156-1170
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether altruism justifies ad hoc legislation with reference to three … vision; and a third one originates from social-contract theory. Design/methodology/approach The authors review two stylized … the civil-law visions are closer to what one might expect from social-contract theory. In these cases, however, it seems …