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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Friedman, David D.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 1 line illus., 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 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?
  • Epilogue. What We Have Been Doing for the Past Nineteen Chapters, or a Rough Sketch of an Elephant
  • Index

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