后现代主义与法律经济学的宿命

The Trend of Law and Economics under the Influence of Postmodernism

在后现代主义的解构下,法律失去了基础和主体自我,而法律经济学以"社会财富最大化"为法律确立新的基础,并且用理性选择理论让法律体系重新获得客观性和逻辑性。法律经济学呈现出现代主义的面相,但是由于法律经济学的逻辑基础面临逻辑和经验的挑战,它不可避免地成为后现代主义的一个分支——法律实用主义学派。在中国现行政治文化氛围下,法律经济学的应用应该避免极端的实用主义倾向。

Under the influence of postmodernism,the law loses its foundation and subjective self. However,the law and economics takes the social wealth maximization as the new foundation of the law and re-renders the legal system objective and logical based on the rational choice theory,thus having a rich sense of modernism. Since the logic foundation of the law and economics is challenged by the logic and experience,the school of law pragmatics becomes inevitably one of the branches of post modernism. In the political culture of China today,it is important to stay away from the tendency of extreme pragmatism in the application of the law and economics.