https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/41962

"The institutional approach of economics of convention (in short EC) has been established in France over the last three decades and since then has received growing international recognition. From its beginning EC has introduced a pragmatic as well as a historical perspective on economic coordination and economic institutions. Also EC has included law in its analysis from its start. EC conceives law not as an external constraint but as internal to action and coordination open to interpretive and situational adoption by competent actors. Consequently, for socio-historical analysis of law EC analyzes the meaning of law from the standpoint of actors which rely in their coordination on conventions. The special issue demonstrates that the approach of EC in the socio-historical analysis of law can be a real transdisciplinary alternative to approaches such as “Law & economics” or economic neo-institutionalism."