Property Rights and Growth: On the Efficiency of Legal Institutions

Author: Gao Debu
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Publish Date: 1999-03-01
Features: This book is one of the selected works in the "Legal Science Library" published under the National "Nineth Five-Year Plan" publishing program. The author studies property rights systems, contract systems, tort systems, corporate systems, as well as antitrust law, government regulation, and welfare state systems from the perspective of combining economics and law. The book examines the evolution of these economic and legal systems. A core argument emphasized in the book is "prioritizing efficiency while considering fairness," and it provides an economic analysis of various legal branches and their changes. The book cites numerous classic works and other relevant materials, particularly Marxism, Western institutional economics, and economic analysis of law, and offers objective analysis and evaluation of some popular Western intellectual trends. The book highlights the historical materialist viewpoint, presenting a valuable attempt and exploration in the study of both economics and law.