Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7fkt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-29T11:13:42.717Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Do Lawyers Impair Economic Growth?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Mancur Olson
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Commentary
Information
Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Fall 1992 , pp. 625 - 633
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1992 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 The transactions costs metaphor is sometimes applied so loosely and in contexts so far removed from market transactions that gave rise to the metaphor that any costs beyond the costs that would be incurred even in a Robinson Crusoe society are called transactions costs. On this broad and analytically blunt definition of transactions costs, everything lawyers do would either increase or decrease transactions costs.Google Scholar

2 Sandler, Todd, Collective Action (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992).Google Scholar

3 Choi, Kwang, Theories of Economic Growth (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1983).Google Scholar

4 Dennis Mueller, ed., The Political Economy of Growth (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1983).Google Scholar

5 Hardin, Russell, Collective Action (Baltimore: Published for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).Google Scholar

6 E.g., 27 Int'l Stud. Q. (1983).Google Scholar

7 E.g., 9 Scandinavian Pol Stud. (March 1986).Google Scholar