Most formal law and economic analysis evaluates legal rules solely on the basis of "efficiency." The prevailing justification for this focus is that -- as a matter of economic theory -- "equity" goals are best accomplished through the income tax, rather than the legal system. In opposition to...

At a time when the divide between the wealthy and the disadvantaged is widening, this major new textbook provides students with a critical understanding of poverty and social exclusion in relation to wealth, rather than as separate from it. Raising fundamental questions about the organisation of...

Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...

Kapital ist das bestimmende Merkmal moderner Volkswirtschaften, doch die meisten Menschen haben keine Ahnung, woher es tatsächlich kommt. Was verwandelt bloßen Reichtum in ein Vermögen, das automatisch mehr Reichtum schafft? Katharina Pistor zeigt in ihrem Buch, wie Kapital hinter...