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这篇文章是为纪念Jurgen Backhaus在法律和经济学方面的贡献而写的,以表彰他长期担任欧洲法律和经济学杂志的编辑。长期以来,法律和经济学学者一直对法律程序促进经济效率的可能性感兴趣。本文探讨了效率主张的问题特征。这种评价是通过帕累托(the Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology, Harcourt Brace, New York, 1935[1923])对逻辑和非逻辑行为的区分来折射效率主张的。这种折射的结果是认识到,经济效率只有在竞争均衡模型中才是一个客观上有意义的概念。在这个模型之外,经济效率取决于理论主体的观点。经济效率与争论的形式有关,而与争论的实质无关。效率主张是父母的推导,而不是可反驳的假设。
Economic Efficiency and the Law: Distinguishing Form from Substance
This essay is written for a Festschrift to commemorate Jurgen Backhaus’s contribution to law and economics in recognition of his long service as Editor of the European Journal of Law and Economics. Scholars of law and economics have long been intrigued by the possibility that legal processes operate to promote economic efficiency. This essay probes the problematical character of the efficiency claim. This appraisal operates by refracting the efficiency claim through Pareto (The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology, Harcourt Brace, New York, 1935 [1923]) distinction between logical and nonlogical action. What results from this refraction is recognition that economic efficiency is an objectively meaningful concept only inside a model of competitive equilibrium. Outside that model, economic efficiency depends on the perspective of a theorizing subject. Economic efficiency pertains to the form of an argument but not to its substance. Efficiency claims are Paretian derivations and not refutable hypotheses.