Abstract
Recent developments in Law and Economics emphasize the need of a closer collaboration for a deeper understanding of social structures and an effective implementation of social scientific knowledge. There are, however, great methodological difficulties in this project: Whereas economics is generally regarded as an empirical science which collects information about the functioning of the economic system, the science of law is mainly of a normative type, trying to solve social conflicts and to establish rational principles for judicial decisions. In this paper a survey of methodological research programmes in Economics and Law will be used to elaborate the methodological characteristics of these sciences (parts I and II). It will be shown that differences in the methodological structures account for the greatest part of the problems in the cooperation between these sciences. So a methodological scheme of interdisciplinary collaboration will be elaborated, which permits fruitful research work in this area (part III).KeywordsLegal RuleLegal OrderEmpirical ScienceJudicial DecisionEconomic PhenomenonThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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