| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Contents |
1. What Does Economics Have to Do with Law? -- 2. Efficiency and All That -- 3. What's Wrong with the World, Part 1 -- 4. What's Wrong with the World, Part 2 -- 5. Defining and Enforcing Rights: Property, Liability, and Spaghetti -- 6. Of Burning Houses and Exploding Coke Bottles -- 7. Coin Flips and Car Crashes: Ex Post versus Ex Ante -- 8. Games, Bargains, Bluffs, and Other Really Hard Stuff -- 9. As Much as Your Life Is Worth -- Intermezzo. The American Legal System in Brief -- 10. Mine, Thine, and Ours: The Economics of Property Law -- 11. Clouds and Barbed Wire: The Economics of Intellectual Property -- 12. The Economics of Contract -- 13. Marriage, Sex, and Babies -- 14. Tort Law -- 15. Criminal Law -- 16. Antitrust -- 17. Other Paths -- 18. The Crime/Tort Puzzle -- 19. Is the Common Law Efficient? |
| Summary |
What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims. This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting. D |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references, citations to cases, and footnotes are available only on the World Wide Web |
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Print version record |
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Economics.
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Law.
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Law -- Economic aspects.
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Economics
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economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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Law -- Economic aspects
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Economics
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Law
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Recht
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Volkswirtschaftslehre
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Rechtseconomie.
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Direito.
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Economia.
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Droit public économique.
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Économie politique.
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Droit -- Aspect économique.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
140081166X |
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9781400811663 |
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9781400823475 |
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1400823471 |
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