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Adam Smith on Bankruptcy Law: “New” Law and Economics in the Glasgow Lectures?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2009
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1 Becker, G.S., “Crime and Punishment: an Economic Approach.” Journal of Political Economy 1968. pp. 169–217.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 According to Smith, the source of punishment is not founded upon the regard of public utility, but upon the resentment of the victim. Smith, A.Lectures on Jurisprudence. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1978, p. 104 (Report of 1762–63) and p. 475Google Scholar
3 Smith, ibid. pp. 131–132
4 Smith, ibid. p. 483
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