TY - BOOK AU - Posner,Richard A. TI - Economic analysis of law AV - KF385 .P65 1977 U1 - 349.73 22 PY - 1977///] CY - Boston PB - Little, Brown KW - Law KW - United States KW - Trade regulation N1 - 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 ER -