Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
'Everyone maximizes utility.' This claim needs interpretation, because it looks filled with content, but really is innocuous, a tautology, nothing to get upset about. It means merely that one's behavior invariably maximizes some function. As Samuelson's imperative, "[C]herchez la maximization, ' 2 suggests, often it is an interesting task and something of an art to recover the function from the behavior. I offer three examples of maximizing, eliminating purpose by degrees.
Recommended Citation
Birmingham, Robert, "What is Legal Theory and What is it Doing in the Curriculum? A View from Contracts" (1991). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 160.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/160
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