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

In 1979, when anthropometric history was still in its infancy, Robert Fogel and collaborators reported that the height of the US male white population began to decline quite unexpectedly around the birth cohorts of 1830. This was quite a conundrum on account of the fact that according to...