Published: January 2014
Lucid, comprehensive, and definitive in its field, this text covers every aspect of economic analysis of the law.
Features:
- Two new chapters, one on intellectual property, one on international and comparative law, both exploding fields of great importance.
- Earlier editions’ questions have been converted to answers, making the book more accessible and informative.
- Revised to be clearer and less technical.
- More eclectic, reflecting recent criticisms of “rational choice” theory, in particular the need to supplement it with insights from psychology.
- Greater attention paid to judicial behavior, realistically modeled and explained in economic terms.
- Incorporates insights from the veritable explosion of books and articles published in the last few years on economic analysis of law.
- Comprehensive Teacher’s Manual.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Law and Economics: An Introduction
Ch. 1. The Nature of Economic Reasoning
Ch. 2. The Economic Approach to Law
Part II: The Common Law
Ch. 3. Property
Ch. 4. Contract Rights and Remedies
Ch. 5. Family Law and Sex Law
Ch. 6. Tort Law
Ch. 7. Criminal Law
Ch. 8. The Common Law, Legal History, and Jurisprudence
Part III: Public Regulation of the Market
Ch. 9. The Theory of Monopoly
Ch. 10. The Antitrust Laws
Ch. 11. The Regulation of the Employment Relation
Ch. 12. Public Utility and Common Carrier Regulation
Ch. 13. The Choice Between Regulation and Common Law
Part IV: The Law of Business Organizations and Financial Markets
Ch. 14. Corporations, Secured and Unsecured Financing, Bankruptcy
Ch. 15. Financial Markets
Part V: Law and the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Ch. 16. Income Inequalities, Distributive Justice, and Poverty
Ch. 17. Taxation
Ch. 18. The Transmission of Wealth at Death
Part VI: The Legal Process
Ch. 19. The Market, the Adversary System, and the Legislative Process as Methods of Resource Allocation
Ch. 20. The Process of Legal Rulemaking
Ch. 21. Civil and Criminal Procedure
Ch. 22. Evidence
Ch. 23. Law Enforcement and the Administrative Process
Part VII: The Constitution and the Federal System
Ch. 24. The Nature and Functions of the Constitution
Ch. 25. Economic Due Process
Ch. 26. The Economics of Federalism
Ch. 27. Racial Discrimination
Ch. 28. The Protection of Free Markets in Ideas and Religion
Ch. 29. Searches, Seizures, and Interrogations
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