Economic analysis of law / Richard A. Posner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown, [1977]Copyright date: ©1977Edition: Second editionDescription: xxiii, 572 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 349.73 22
LOC classification:
  • KF385 .P65 1977
Contents:
Part I. Law and economics: an introduction -- 1. The nature of economic reasoning -- 2. The economic approach to law -- Part II. The common law -- 3. Property -- 4. Contract rights and remedies -- 5. Family law -- 6. Tort rights and remedies -- 7. The criminal sanction and criminal law -- 8. The unity and morality of the common law -- Part III. Public regulation of the market -- 9. The theory of monopoly -- 10. Antitrust laws -- 11. The regulation of the employment relation -- 12. Public utility and common carrier regulation -- 13. The choice between regulation and common law -- Part IV. The law of business organizations and financial markets -- 14. Corporations -- 15. Financial markets -- Part V. Law and the distribution of income and wealth -- 16. Income inequalities, distributive justice, and poverty -- 17. Taxation -- 18. The transmission of wealth at death -- Part VI. The legal process -- 19. The market, the adversary system, and the legislative process as methods of resource allocation -- 20. The process of legal rulemaking -- 21. Civil and criminal procedure -- 22. Law enforcement -- 23. The administrative process -- Part VII. The constitution and the federal system -- 24. The nature and functions of the constitution -- 25. Economic due process -- 26. The economics of federalism -- 27. Rcial discrimination -- 28. The marketplace of ideas and the primacy of political over economic rights.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Law and economics: an introduction -- 1. The nature of economic reasoning -- 2. The economic approach to law -- Part II. The common law -- 3. Property -- 4. Contract rights and remedies -- 5. Family law -- 6. Tort rights and remedies -- 7. The criminal sanction and criminal law -- 8. The unity and morality of the common law -- Part III. Public regulation of the market -- 9. The theory of monopoly -- 10. Antitrust laws -- 11. The regulation of the employment relation -- 12. Public utility and common carrier regulation -- 13. The choice between regulation and common law -- Part IV. The law of business organizations and financial markets -- 14. Corporations -- 15. Financial markets -- Part V. Law and the distribution of income and wealth -- 16. Income inequalities, distributive justice, and poverty -- 17. Taxation -- 18. The transmission of wealth at death -- Part VI. The legal process -- 19. The market, the adversary system, and the legislative process as methods of resource allocation -- 20. The process of legal rulemaking -- 21. Civil and criminal procedure -- 22. Law enforcement -- 23. The administrative process -- Part VII. The constitution and the federal system -- 24. The nature and functions of the constitution -- 25. Economic due process -- 26. The economics of federalism -- 27. Rcial discrimination -- 28. The marketplace of ideas and the primacy of political over economic rights.

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