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La ilegalidad, los metaordenamientos y la metapreferencias

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  • Jorge Iván González

    (Universidad Externado de Colombia y Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

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This paper parts from the work developed by Sen about metaorders and metapreferences to explain illegality as a rational problem. After showing the scope of this categories, the author exposes some limits of the benefit cost analysis of illegality. He continues suggesting that the concept of metapreferences contributes to understanding the fuzzy space that exists between legal and illegal frontiers, and between legitimacy and illegitimacy. González point out the necessity of a more detailed analysis of the way in which beliefs and desires shape individual and social preferences, if we don’t want to fall in simplistic explanations of illegality based on an arbitrary criteria of the good. He concludes too that the inconsistency of metapreferences can explain why more expenditures in security and justice don’t result in a reduction of impunity.

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  • Jorge Iván González, 2000. "La ilegalidad, los metaordenamientos y la metapreferencias," Revista de Economía Institucional, Universidad Externado de Colombia - Facultad de Economía, vol. 2(2), pages 37-52, January-J.
    • Handle: RePEc:rei:ecoins:v:2:y:2000:i:2:p:37-52
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    Keywords

    illegality; collective rationality; wide rationality; metapreferences; metaorders;
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    JEL classification:

    • K42 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
    • D71 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations

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