Rahmatian, Andreas --- "A fundamental critique of the law-and-economics analysis of intellectual property rights*" [2013] ELECD 1301; in Dinwoodie, B. Graeme (ed), "Methods and Perspectives in Intellectual Property" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) 71

Book Title: Methods and Perspectives in Intellectual Property

Editor(s): Dinwoodie, B. Graeme

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782549970

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: A fundamental critique of the law-and-economics analysis of intellectual property rights*

Author(s): Rahmatian, Andreas

Number of pages: 43

Abstract/Description:

The economic analysis of law and legal institutions or the law-and-economics movement, originally a distinct North American phenomenon that emerged in the 1960s has become a widespread tool for a certain conceptualisation and understanding of legal problems. Prominent representatives of the law-and-economics approach regard intellectual property especially as a ‘natural field for economic analysis of law’. Since its inception, this form of analysis has been met with suspicion, as it was felt that law-and-economics tried to take over other social sciences and established a kind of ‘economics imperialism’.