Law's order : what economics has to do with law and why it matters /
Friedman, David D.,
Law's order : what economics has to do with law and why it matters / David D. Friedman. - 329 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction -- What Does Economics Have to Do with Law? -- Efficiency and All that -- What's Wrong with the World, Part 1 -- What's Wrong with the World, Part 2 -- Defining and Enforcing Rights: Property, Liability, and Spaghetti -- Of Burning Houses and Exploding Coke Bottles -- Coin Flips and Car Crashes: Ex Post versus Ex Ante -- Gaines, Bargains, Bluffs, and Other Really Hard Stuff -- As Much as Your Life Is Worth 95 Intermezzo. The American Legal System in Brief -- Mine, Throe, and Ours: The Economics of Property Law -- Clouds and Barbed Wire: The Economics of Intellectual Property -- The Economics of Contract -- Marriage, Sex, and Babies -- Tort Law -- Criminal Law -- Antitrust -- Other Paths -- The Crime /Tort Puzzle -- Is the Common Law Efficient? -- Epilogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
0691010161 9780691010168 0691090092 9780691090092
Law and economics
Economics.
Law
330.1
Law's order : what economics has to do with law and why it matters / David D. Friedman. - 329 pages ; 24 cm
Includes index.
Introduction -- What Does Economics Have to Do with Law? -- Efficiency and All that -- What's Wrong with the World, Part 1 -- What's Wrong with the World, Part 2 -- Defining and Enforcing Rights: Property, Liability, and Spaghetti -- Of Burning Houses and Exploding Coke Bottles -- Coin Flips and Car Crashes: Ex Post versus Ex Ante -- Gaines, Bargains, Bluffs, and Other Really Hard Stuff -- As Much as Your Life Is Worth 95 Intermezzo. The American Legal System in Brief -- Mine, Throe, and Ours: The Economics of Property Law -- Clouds and Barbed Wire: The Economics of Intellectual Property -- The Economics of Contract -- Marriage, Sex, and Babies -- Tort Law -- Criminal Law -- Antitrust -- Other Paths -- The Crime /Tort Puzzle -- Is the Common Law Efficient? -- Epilogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.
0691010161 9780691010168 0691090092 9780691090092
Law and economics
Economics.
Law
330.1