Acknowledgments  ix

Prologue. The Structure of American Legal-Economic Theory  xiii

1. Modern Science, Classical Thought, and the Birth of American Legal-Economic Theory  1

2. The Pragmatic Reconstruction of American Legal-Economic Theory  39

3. Neoclassicism and the Reprise of Formalism  81

4. The Dissolution of American Legal-Economic Theory  121

Epilogue. Gazing into the Future and Our Postmodern Times  157

Notes  175

Index  227

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