Gordon Tullock and the Virginia School of Law and Economics

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• 作者：Francesco Parisi ; Barbara Luppi ; Alice Guerra
• 关键词：Rent ; seeking ; Litigation ; Fee ; shifting rule ; Virginia School of Law and Economics
• 刊名：Constitutional Political Economy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：28
• 期：1
• 页码：48-61
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• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Political Science; Constitutional Law; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1572-9966
• 卷排序：28

文摘

In 1999 Gordon Tullock became Professor at the George Mason University Law School. Tullock’s arrival at George Mason brought the economics department and the law school close together. The work that resulted during those years consolidated the methodological foundations for a different way of thinking about the economic analysis of law—the “functional” approach to law and economics. The functional law and economics approach espoused by the Virginia School was not attacking any of the results of the Chicago School or the Yale School, but rather proposing a methodological shift. This paper presents some of the results developed by this school and illustrates Tullock’s controversial positions on trials and on the common law system, through anecdotes, Tullock’s own work and related scholarly contributions.