Legal research and economics research: on the historicity of legal norms

Abstract

BASED ON A SIMPLE TAXONOMY OF THE FORMS BY WHICH ECONOMIC THINKING APPREHENDS THE IMPACT OF THE NORM, THE TEXT ARGUES THAT THE MAIN LACUNA OF ECONOMICS LIES IN UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORICITY OF LEGAL NORMS. THE TEXT SUGGESTS THAT LAW RESEARCH ON THE HISTORICITY OF LEGAL NORMS CAN INTERACT IN A FERTILE WAY WITH ECONOMIC RESEARCH AND THAT THIS INTERACTION MAY HAVE ECONOMIC POLICY-MAKING IMPLICATIONS.