Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics
Edited by Todd J. Zywicki and Peter J. Boettke
Abstract
Austrian economists have been ambivalent on the foundational contributions of Ronald Coase to modern law and economics. One side supported a Lockean natural rights view based on the property over one’s own body as a determinant of rights and considerations of justice. The other side supported a Coasean efficiency view, with a Hayekian evolutionary perspective. Our conclusion will be that both are found in informal slums, but informal solutions of disputes among neighbors generally follow a “rights” approach and do not intentionally look for efficiency.
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