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Issues in Law and Economics /
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With Issues in Law and Economics, Harold Winter takes readers through these a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Applying economic reasoning to the law
- Part I. Property
- Chapter one. Should body parts be salable? Moore v. the regents of the university of California (1990) and the market for human tissue
- Chapter two. Can anyone own the sunlight? Fontainebleau hotel corp. v. forty-five twenty-five, inc. (1959) and the assignment and protection of property rights
- Chapter three. Should eminent domain power be available to private companies? Poletown neighborhood council v. city of Detroit (1981) and the economics of takings
- Chapter four. Will file sharing ruin the music industry? a&m records v. Napster (2001) and the economics of copyright protection
- Part II. Contracts
- Chapter five. Should the courts encourage contractual breach? acme mills & elevator co. v. j.c. Johnson (1911) and the economics of breaking promises
- Chapter six. Should the courts void a contractual clause they deem unfair? Williams v. walker Thomas furniture co. (1965) and the paradox of stipulated damages
- Part III. Torts
- Chapter seven. Should tort liability be governed by fault or no-fault rules? Indiana harbor belt railroad v. American Cyanamid (1990) and the economics of the great debate in tort law
- Chapter eight. Should firms be held liable for product defects? Voss v. black and Decker (1983) and the economics of product liability
- Chapter nine. Does malpractice liability induce physicians to provide too much health care? helling v. Carey (1974) and the economics of medical malpractice law
- Part IV. Crime and punishment
- Chapter ten. Are criminals rational? Gary Becker and the dawn of rational crime analysis (1968)
- Chapter eleven. Does prison reduce crime through deterrence or incapacitation? Ewing v. California (2003) and the economics of the three-strikes law
- Chapter twelve. Is racial profiling a nondiscriminatory policing strategy? Anderson v. Cornejo (2004) and the economics of police search procedures
- Chapter thirteen. Do judges discriminate when sentencing? the sentencing reform act and federal sentencing guidelines (1984)
- Part V. Behavioral law and economics
- Chapter fourteen. How does behavioral economics contribute to the economic analysis of law? a brief introduction to the marriage of economics and psychology
- Case citations
- Index