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Foundations of economic analysis of law /
"What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, whi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Property law. Definition, justification, and emergence of property rights
- Division of property rights
- Acquisition and transfer of property
- Conflict and cooperation in the use of property: the problem of externalities
- Public property
- Property rights in information
- II. Accident law. Liability and deterrence: basic theory
- Liability and deterrence: firms
- Extensions of the analysis of deterrence
- Liability, risk-bearing, and insurance
- Liability and administrative costs
- III. Contract law. Overview of contracts
- Contract formation
- Production contracts
- Other types of contract
- IV. Litigation and the legal process. Basic theory of litigation
- Extensions of the basic theory
- General topics on the legal process
- V. Public law enforcement and criminal law. Deterrence with monetary sanctions
- Deterrence with nonmonetary sanctions
- Extensions of the theory of deterrence
- Incapacitation, rehabilitation, and retribution
- Criminal law
- VI. General structure of the law. The general structure of the law and its optimality
- VII. Welfare economics, morality and the law. Welfare economics and morality
- Implications for the analysis of law
- Income distributional equity and the law
- Concluding observations.