Three problems of social organisation: institutional law and economics meets Habermasian law and democracy
探讨哈贝马斯伦理学对法律经济分析的启示，通过连接哈贝马斯理论与凡勃伦-艾尔斯-康芒斯传统，解决制度主义者提出的三个社会组织问题：现状合法性、交易结构合法性和社会秩序问题。
This paper attempts to identify certain implications of Habermasian ethics for the economic analysis of law. It does so by demonstrating a complementarity between the Habermas of Between Facts and Norms and the Veblen--Ayres--Commons tradition(s) of economic analysis. Three unresolved problems of social organisation raised by the institutionalists are addressed: the legitimacy of the status quo ante (Buchanan-Schmid), the legitimacy of society's transaction structure (Klevorick) and the problem of social order (Hobbes-Platteau). Discourse ethics demonstrates how these problems may be resolved. The model of human agency adopted in institutional law and economics permits an easier fit with discourse ethics than would be possible with the neoclassical traditions. Copyright 2002, Oxford University Press.