Institutional Law and Economics: The Legal-Economic Nexus

The next series of blog posts concern reviewing ideas from several articles of Warren Samuels. We will take each section of the paper and dissect the ideas from Warren Samuels “The Legal Economic Nexus” paper from the George Washington Law Review (v.57, issue 6) in 1988-1898. This first post is simply about the introduction of the paper. From there, we will discuss the three main sections of the paper each week. The first paragraph is expansively broad and packs a punch. We are told that in using Foucault we can understand that people make a distinction between a public and private part of life and the community. What does this mean “in the sense of Foucault?”  I think Samuels meant that Foucault thought about how ideas represent notions or objects in the real world.  In this case, Samuels meant that we use these words, polity and economy to represent two separate and independent concepts that exist in reality.  The concept that we think of them in our minds that they are separate fro