摘要
This article seeks to make a constructive advance in jurisprudential theory by employing the unified analytical framework of modern social science. We first outline the main ideas of individual rational decision-making and game theory and of social choice and mechanism design, before offering a preliminary discussion of their application to legal issues. The core thesis is that the law in combination with other social norms provides institutional incentives to all actors in society. Legislators＇ social justice objectives can be reasonably enforced only as a result of behavioral equilibrium in the social game.
本文探讨现代社会科学的统一分析框架对法学理论的建设性推进。我们展示了个体理性决策与博弈论，社会选择与机制设计理论的主要思想，并初步讨论了它们在法律问题中的运用。其核心观念为：法律与其它社会规范一起为组成社会的所有行为主体提供了制度激励，立法者任何合乎社会正义理念的目标，只有作为他们在社会博弈中的均衡行为的结果，才能得到合理实施。
