耶鲁大学法学院的布鲁斯.阿克曼教授将法律的经济学方法描绘为“20世纪法学中最重要的发展”。的确,经济学已经改变了法律问题的性质、对法律规则和制度的一般理解甚至法律实践。一般地,我们能说经济学提供了一个行为理论以预测人们如何对法律的变化作出反应。这一理论胜过直觉 Professor Bruce Ackerman at the Yale Law School described the law’s economic approach as “the most important development in jurisprudence in the twentieth century.” Indeed, economics has changed the nature of legal issues, general understanding of legal rules and systems, and even legal practice. In general, we can say that economics provides a theory of behavior that predicts how people respond to changes in law. This theory is better than intuition