ABSTRACT
Charles Silver, as Kornhauser Lewis A. has pointed out, takes an approach to changes in rules characteristic of economists rather than the approach, more common in legal studies and more common with philosophers and social scientists, that focuses on "issue-processing". There is a sense in which this approach is not so general as the one taken commonly by philosophers. Children do not learn received rules as solutions to economic problems. They learn them from the insistence of those in authority over them and conform—perhaps perfectly—without in many cases beginning at any time in their lives to consider the rules as such solutions. The theory of games itself was developed especially to deal with uncertainty arising for personal choice from the interactions of given persons with others. Social rules may be looked upon by economists as least-cost solutions to problems about transaction costs raised by changes in technology.
