Hadfield Reading Notes
- 17-22: Recount a personal experience in which you have been a member of a group that had its own rules about things.
- 23 Among the characteristics that distinguish "the law" is "impersonality." What do we mean by "impersonal" in this context?
- 23 Among the characteristics that distinguish "the law" is "deliberateness." What do we mean by "deliberate" in this context?
- 24 What do we mean when we use Fuller's word "enterprise" in connection with what law is?
- 25 What's the big deal with "everyone knows that everyone knows"?
Chapter 2
- 33 Explain "law is a product of successfully coordinating third-party enforcement of rules" to your ride-share driver.
- 35 What's important about the question "what do others around here think the rules are?"?
- 39 "And without the collective willingness to bear enforcement costs, large and small, there are no rules to speak of and no reliable social order." Comment.
- 40 Collective punishment is not the same as mob violence. Comment
- 40 In what sense can retaliation by a victim be a part of third party enforcement?
- 41 What does "rules about what counts as a rule" mean?
- 18, 53-7 "If there is no rule … there is no market" we read on p 18. How does the material at the end of chapter 2 support the idea that well understood shared rules are necessary for markets to exist?
Chapter 3
- 62-3 Draw a diagram that captures the logic of cause/effect thinking, language, shared practice, and "we"
- 63 Estimate ratio of processor power and memory represented by culture-source problem solving skills in, for example, survival in the arctic. Do it for some realm with which you are familiar.
- 65 Say, in other words, what it means that information is a non-rival good.
- 65 Say, in other words, what it means that information displays increasing returns.
- 66 Smith: "The invention of all those machines by which labor is so much facilitated and abridged" is the RESULT of the division of labor. Agree? Disagree? Examples?
- 66 "Specialization captures the benefits of increasing returns to information." Translate in other words and provide a new example.
- 67.4 "Without exchange relationships, we cannot support specialization." Explain.
- 69.5 "Boyd and his colleagues argue…coordinate third-party punishment…distinctive features…." Rewrite the rest of this paragraph with an alternative example.
- 70 Explain the Catch-22 of culture and norms - a first order social construct - as social infrastructure.
- 71 What does the expression "everyone is on the same page" mean and how is it relevant to this story of norms and rules?
- 74 What is the difference between a primary rule and a secondary rule?
- 75 What is Hadfield's definition of "policy"?
Chapter 4: The Birth of Modern Legal Infrastructure
- 83.6 "producing and implementing it" - in what sense an "it" here? Hint: we don't mean "laws" and "statutes"
- 83.9 Draw a diagram that shows the factors that go into your new business as described here. How do you represent "law" and where do you put it?