Words from a Largely Forgotten Man
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Published as Chapter 17 in The Fundamental Interrelationships between Government and Property, Nicholas Mercuro & Warren J. Samuels, eds.
After I had agreed to contribute to this volume, I reflected on the not so subtle irony of my doing so. My hero, if I have any hero, is the American Legal Realist, Underhill Moore. His first significant publication was a savage criticism of a book much like this one, a book called The Rational Basis of Legal Institutions, that offered a series of essays on several legal institutions-liberty, property, succession, the family and punishment. Moore observed that legal institutions were only patterns of habitual human behavior, the rationality of which depended on the ends to which the behavior was a means and so rephrased the editor’s question as, “What are the means to legal institutions and to what proximate ends are legal institutions means? Concretely, of what facts are group habits consequences and what are the consequences of group habits?” (Moore 1923).
Publication Date
1999
Publisher
Routledge
City
London
ISBN
9780762306008
First Page
223
Disciplines
Economics | Law | Legal Theory
Recommended Citation
John Henry Schlegel, Words from a Largely Forgotten Man in The Fundamental Interrelationships between Government and Property (The Economics of Legal Relationships series) 223 (Nicholas Mercuro & Warren J. Samuels, eds., Routledge 1999)
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