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Cultural Contingency and Economic Function: Bridge-Building from the Law & Economics Side

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Richard H. McAdams
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Comment on the Presidential Address
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Law & Society Review , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 221 - 228
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© 2004 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

For generous and helpful comments, I thank Dhammika Dharmapala, Tom Ginsburg, Anna Marshall, Dan Steward, and Tom Ulen.

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