本书从法经济学的起源谈起，全面介绍了现代法经济学产生以来的整体发展趋势，以及法经济学自引入中国以来的发展情况。首先，本书梳理了法经济学在美国及欧洲等国兴起与发展过程中主要成果、观点、方法、知名学者的研究轨迹，深入分析了法经济学在国外兴起与发展的脉络，对比了不同背景下，法经济学发展的共性与差异，为思考中国法经济学未来的发展路径提供了借鉴。其次，本书搜集了从20世纪80年代至2019年在CSSCI期刊发表的法经济学文献，梳理了中国法经济学近40年的发展历程，明晰了中国法经济学在法学与经济学界交叉融合过程中的发展路径、核心问题、主要方法、关键结论，并进一步地对250篇权威期刊文章进行深入分析，揭示了中国法经济学发展的原动力。再次，对基于裁判文书实证研究的文献进行分析，厘清了法经济学在中国法治进程不断推进背景下的发展之路。最后，运用法经济学的理论方法对对民事诉讼程序与规则、司法改革中法官的激励、合同违约金变更、农村土地经营权抵押等本土化问题进行了法经济学的分析，为法经济学在中国的应用并逐步形成中国的法经济学分析范式提供了一种崭新的应用思路。

Starting from the origin of law and economics, this book comprehensively introduces the overall development trend of modern law and economics, as well as the development of law and economics since its introduction into China. Firstly, this book sorts out the main achievements, views, methods, and research trajectories of well-known scholars in the process of the rise and development of law and economics in the United States and Europe, deeply analyzes the context of the rise and development of law and economics abroad, compares the commonalities and differences in the development of law and economics in different contexts, and provides reference for thinking about the future development path of Chinese law and economics. Secondly, this book collects the legal and economic literature published in CSSCI journals from the 80s of the 20th century to 2019, sorts out the development process of Chinese law and economics in the past 40 years, clarifies the development path, core issues, main methods and key conclusions of Chinese law and economics in the process of cross-integration of law and economics, and further analyzes 250 authoritative journal articles, revealing the driving force for the development of Chinese law and economics. Thirdly, the literature based on empirical research on judgment documents is analyzed, and the development path of law and economics under the background of the continuous advancement of the rule of law in China is clarified. Finally, the theoretical methods of law and economics are used to analyze the localization issues of civil procedure and rules, judges' incentives in judicial reform, change of contract liquidated damages, mortgage of rural land operation rights, etc., which provides a new application idea for the application of law and economics in China and the gradual formation of China's legal and economic analysis paradigm.（AI翻译）