Design of Constitutions

Economic Approaches to Law series

Edited by Stefan Voigt, Director, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany

几乎在世界任何地方,新constitutions are written and passed at almost any time. Over the last couple of years, an increasing number of economists have analysed constitutions based on an economic approach with an emphasis firstly on the (economic) effects of constitutions and followed by the factors determining their content. The contributions assembled in this volume go one step further: they ask how the knowledge gained over the last number of years can usefully be applied to constitutional design. This new branch could also be termed applied constitutional economics. Along with an original introduction, Professor Voigt has compiled a valuable research collection that will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in this growing field.

‘This particular work presents – in one handy and copiously footnoted hardback volume – no less than 23 of the most authoritative and ground-breaking essays and articles currently available on this relatively new avenue of economic and legal research, published by a judicious selection of the world’s top universities. . . If you’re a lawyer, economic adviser, policy maker, student or academic, you should acquire this book.’
– Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine