Petrażycki jako prekursor law & economics

Abstract

At the end of the 19th century the first wave of the movement law & economics has taken place in Europe. One of its protagonists was Leon Petrażycki (Leo von Petrażycki, 1867–1931), a Polish jurist who studied in Russia and in Germany. His book “Die Lehre vom Einkommen” whose title can be best translated as “The Doctrine of Income” was published in Berlin in 1893 (1st volume) and 1895 (2nd volume). The doctrine of Petrażycki, who insisted on using economic instead of technical-legal concepts, reveals astonishing resemblances to the modern movement of law & economics, inaugurated in 1960-ties in the USA.