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Jurisprudence is the general theory of law: the study of what law is, what it is for, and how it comes into being. Until the 18th century there were essentially two approaches to this study. One regarded law as the expression of political power; the other considered it to be the expression of justice.
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Stein, P.G. (2018). Jurisprudence. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1103
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