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1.Define economics and explain its relevance to law.[2]

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Definition

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
(Lionel Robbins, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science, 1932)

The definition rests on four elements: unlimited ends, scarce means, alternative uses of those means, and the necessity of choice. An earlier definition by Alfred Marshall (Principles of Economics, 1890) described economics as a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

Relevance to law

Both subjects deal with scarcity. Economics explains how scarce resources are allocated. Law creates and enforces the rights which make that allocation binding, so the law of property and the law of contract are allocation rules in legal form.

Economic legislation cannot be applied without economics. The Competition Act 2002, the Consumer Protection Act 2019 and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 rest on the concepts of market, monopoly, cost and solvency.
Law and Economics is itself a school of legal thought. Founded by Ronald Coase in The Problem of Social Cost (1960) and developed by Richard Posner in Economic Analysis of Law (1973), it tests a legal rule by the efficiency of the outcome it produces.
Constitutional adjudication requires it. When a court tests a restriction on trade under Article 19(6) against the freedom guaranteed by Article 19(1)(g), it is weighing an economic consequence.

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