Law and the Invisible Hand

Robin Paul Malloy is the E. I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law, and a Kauffman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Syracuse University College of Law. He is a leading expert on market jurisprudence, property, real estate development, and land use regulation. Malloy has published numerous books and scholarly articles. This is his fourth book with Cambridge University Press.

• 1. Introduction: law's invisible hand; 2. Setting the stage; 3. Social organization in the informal realm; 4. Social organization in the formal realm; 5. Integrating the informal and formal in Smith's theory; 6. The spectator view; 7. Judgment and justice; 8. The sentiment of common interest; 9. The impartial spectator, homo-economicus and homo-identicus; 10. Understanding the four stages of progress; 11. Adam Smith in American law; 12. Parting thoughts.

'… the book is, as a whole, both a rigorous study of the work of Adam Smith and an ambitious experiment to refect, in the thought of a master of the past, tensions and contradictions of the present.' Luca Arnaudo, History of Economic Ideas