%0 Journal Article %T Pragmatism in Philosophy, Realism in Law and the Double Assault on Classical Political Economy: the foundations of the First Law and Economics Movement in American Progressive Era America (1880-1930) / Pragmatismo em Filosofia, Realismo em Direito e o Duplo Assalto ¨¤ Economia Pol¨ªtica Cl¨¢ssica: as bases do First Law and Economics Movement na Progressive Era Americana (1880-1930) %A Alfredo Copetti Neto %J Sequ¨ºncia : Estudos Juridicos e Politicos %D 2012 %I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina %X This essay aims to discuss the socalled First Law and Economics Movement, linked to the American Progressive Era, whose design allowed a paradigmatic rupture in the american legal practice. Lawyers and economists have joined together to unravel by one hand, the positions assumed by the distinctly economistic U.S. Supreme Court in the early twentieth century, based on laissez-faire and justified, contrary sense, as mere formalists; on the other hand, sought to propose interaction of both disciplines (law and economics) to enhance the consideration of historical and social aspects of judicial decisions and, therefore, open for the discussion of the possibility of redefining the economic fundamentals of the general welfare of society. In this sense, it welcomes, therefore, the existence of an economic movement of the law, linked with the progressists and clearly earlier from that started in the 60s of the twentieth century by the University of Chicago.O presente ensaio visa discorrer sobre o chamado First Law and Economics Movement, vinculado ¨¤ Progressive Era Americana, cuja concep o possibilitou uma ruptura paradigm¨¢tica na pr¨¢tica jur¨ªdica dos Estados Unidos. Juristas e economistas se uniram para desvendar, por um lado, as posi es nitidamente economicistas assumidas pela Suprema Corte Americana no in¨ªcio do s¨¦culo XX, fundadas na economia do laissez-faire e justificadas, contr¨¢rio senso, como meramente formalistas; por outro, buscaram propor a intera o de ambas as disciplinas (direito e economia) para potencializar a considera o dos aspectos hist¨®rico-sociais das decis es judiciais e, com isso, abrir vista ¨¤ discuss o acerca da possibilidade de se redefinir os fundamentos econ micos do bem-estar geral da sociedade. Nesse sentido, enaltece-se, por consequ¨ºncia, a exist¨ºncia de um movimento econ mico do (ao) direito de cunho progressista e nitidamente anterior aquele iniciado na d¨¦cada de 60 do s¨¦culo XX pela University of Chicago. %K First Law and Economics Movement %K Progressive Era %K Substantive Due Process %K Primeira Lei e Movimento Economia. Era Progressista. Devido processo substantivo %U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/sequencia/article/view/2177-7055.2012v33n65p209/23706