Jürgen von Kempski as Philosopher of Law and Economics

Authors

Peter Cserne (University of Aberdeen)

Abstract

This paper is an exercise in the history of thought, and a contribution to the philosophy and methodology of law and economics.
The paper’s main objective is a historical and rational reconstruction of some of the work of Jürgen von Kempski (1910–1998), a German lawyer and philosopher of social sciences who, starting from the 1950s laid the foundations of a possible version of "law and economics."