Law's Order : What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters /

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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 econ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedman, David D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Droit > Aspect economique.
Économie politique.
Droit public economique.
Economia.
Direito.
Rechtseconomie.
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Recht
Law.
Economics.
Law > Economic aspects.
LAW > Jurisprudence.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
economics.
Economics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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