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¶ … Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life" by David Friedman. The paper will discuss various articles that have been written to elaborate various points from the book.
The Hidden Order: Economics of Everyday Life
David Friedman's book "The Hidden Order: Economics of Everyday Life" is a classic read, it highlights all the possible encounters a person can have in the field of economics. He has tried to highlight the problems and rational of everyday life that are encountered in the field of economics. His books cover various parts and aspects of everyday life of the general population.
The Hidden Order: Economics of Everyday Life
Friedman has covered various topics in his book; they include topics like, price, value and cost of a simple economy, relations between employers and employees in the real world, implementation of economics in everyday life with emphasis on the criminal activities that take lace in the economist's world.
Many economists have written many articles and have provided with analytical details of the works of Friedman. These article vary from giving extra tips on Friedman's work or act as criticism to his work. In the chapter of Implementation and application of economic theories, David Friedman has given a detailed analysis of how crimes take place in the world of economics. Economics applies to illegal markets as well as to legal ones. When one input to production is eliminated, substitutes become more valuable. Since participants in illegal markets cannot enforce their contracts in court, substitutes such as reputation become more important. The traditional definition of an honest politician is one who stays bought.
The Concept of Law
Though commentators often characterize economic analysis of law as providing a comprehensive theory of law, its narrower ambitions become apparent when one realizes that economic analysis of law has not explicitly addressed the question "What is law?." Indeed, economic analyses of law generally presuppose a concept of law in that the law is uncontroversially known to all actors.
One might extract two quite different accounts of the concept of law from the...
On one interpretation, economic analysis of law relies on a straightforward theory of legal positivism. On the second interpretation, at which the end of the last section hinted, economic analysis of law assimilates the analysis of law to the analysis of social phenomena generally; it postulates, then, that there is no analytically useful concept of law. A wide range of criminal justice issues have been analyzed in literally thousands of published and unpublished studies using the tools of economic analysis, particularly in the U.S.A.
Behavioral Studies
These are studies that focus on a particular theory of criminal behaviour: the rational-choice approach (whereby criminals are assumed to offend because they perceive the benefits, to them personally, of offending outweigh the costs) and to its application to criminal justice policy. It is arguable whether these fall within the field of economics per se or into related fields, such as psychology or criminology. Nonetheless a number of studies falling squarely within this category have been published in leading economics journals and are frequently cited as examples of the wide applicability of the "rational economic man" concept. An example of this approach locally is Cathy Buchanan and Peter Hartley's Controlling Crime in New Zealand (1996). This was commissioned by the New Zealand Business Roundtable and attracted considerable publicity, although much of it was adverse. The rational-choice approach can, of course, also be incorporated in work dealing with cost-efficient or "optimal" (as determined by cost: benefit analysis) responses to crime. However, the same can be said of a wide range of psychological/criminological and other insights.
Unit Monetary Costs of Crimes
Another key issue to be addressed in the design of a model methodology for economic analysis is the development of unit monetary costs of the major property and violent crimes (e.g., burglary, robbery, child abuse, sexual assault). Without unit costs of the different crime types that will be measured in evaluations of crime prevention programs, there will be no way to value crimes saved or prevented. For the purpose of…
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David Friedman, last viewed: 24th May'04
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/libency.doc
David Friedman Homepage, Last viewed: 24th may'04
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Hidden_Order/Hidden_Order_Chapter_20.html
http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/reports/1997/economic/one.html
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