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James R. HackneyJr., Under Cover of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. xx, 239, $64.10 (hbk), $22.95 (pbk). ISBN-13: 978-0822339984.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

Ejan Mackaay
Ejan Mackaay*
Affiliation:
University of Montreal, Canada
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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 240 - 242
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References

1 See in particular “Symposium on Efficiency as a Legal Concern,” Hofstra Law Review 8 (1980): 485–770; “A Response to the Efficiency Symposium,” Hofstra Law Review 8 (1980): 811–972.

2 James R. Hackney, Jr, “The Intellectual Origins of American Strict Products Liability: A Case Study in American Pragmatic Instrumentalism,” American Journal of Legal History 39 (1995): 443–509; “Law and Neoclassical Economics: Science, Politics, and the Reconfiguration of American Tort Law Theory,” Law and History Review 15 (1997): 275–322; “Law and Neoclassical Economics: A Reply to Commentaries,” Law and History Review 16 (1997): 163–171; “The ‘End' of: Science, Philosophy, and Legal Theory,” University of Miami Law Review 57 (2003): 629–648; “Law and Neoclassical Economics Theory: A Critical History of the Distribution/Efficiency Debate,” Journal of Socio-Economics 32 (2003): 361–390; “The ‘End' of: Science, Philosophy, and Legal Theory,” University of Miami Law Review 57 (2003): 629–648.

3 Richard A. Posner, How Judges Think (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008), 7.

4 I hope to contribute my bit to opening the debate there with Ejan Mackaay and Stéphane Rousseau, Analyse économique du droit (Paris/Montréal: Dalloz-Sirey/Éditions Thémis, 2008), 2nd ed.

5 Patricia M. Danzon, “Medical Malpractice,” in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, Vol. 2, ed. Peter Newman (London: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 624–635, 632.

6 Peoples Department Stores Inc. (Trustee of) v. Wise [2004] 3 S.C.R. 461, 2004 SCC 68 (CanLII).