The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
The economic analysis of law has had many good ideas. It's had one great idea -like, world-transforming idea, I think. And the idea is, when you're stuck, minimize the sum of the costs of decisions and the costs of errors.
We want laws to be applied predictably.
Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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