Formulation of Appropriate Laws: A New Multidisciplinary Modelling
Approach and an Application to Electronic Funds Transfer Regulation.
Efficient laws have profound positive social, economic, political and
welfare effects. As a consequence, the formulation of efficient laws is
a central issue in the study, practice and implementation of laws.
Fragmented approaches to the formulation of laws such as 'comparative
law analysis' and 'welfare economic analysis of laws' exist in the
current literature; they even occasionally rear their heads in the
practice and implementation of laws. However, what these authors offer
and what is needed, is an integrated approach to help formulate
efficient and socially desirable laws - an approach that not only
incorporates 'comparative law analysis' and 'welfare economic analysis
of laws, ' but also takes into consid- ation other various dimensions of
human welfare that are affected by new laws and legal reform. This book
presents such an approach using the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)
regulation in Australia as its vehicle of analysis. The two-pronged
approach offered in this book can be applied to formulate efficient laws
that maximise the social welfare of the country, irrespective of social,
political and economic organisations of the country under study. As
such, this book makes several distinct contributions to the literature
in law as it: 1. develops a new integrated multi-disciplinary approach
using quantitative methods to formulate appropriate laws; 2. applies
recent developments in welfare economics; 3.
