The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farnsworth, Ward, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Methodology.

Law.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Law and economics.

Law--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Summary:

Drawing on economics, game theory, psychology, jurisprudence, and other fields. Ward Farnsworth's The Legal Analyst is a fascinating guide to tools for thinking about the law. Every idea is taught step-by-step, explained in clear, lively language, and illustrated with telling examples. The result is an indispensable book for law students, lawyers, scholars, and anyone else interested in legal questions.

Contents:

Ex ante and ex post

The idea of efficiency

Thinking at the margin

The single owner

The least cost avoider

Administrative cost

Rents

The coase theorem

Agency (with Eric Posner)

The prisoner's dilemma

Public goods

The stag hunt

Chicken

Cascades

Voting paradoxes

Suppressed markets (with Saul Levmore)

Rules and standards

Slippery slopes (with Eugene Volokh)

Acoustic separation

Property rules and liability rules

Baselines

Willingness to pay and willingness to accept : the endowment effect and kindred ideas

Hindsight bias

Framing effects

Anchoring

Self-serving bias, with a note on attribution error

Presumptions

Standards of proof

The product rule

The base rate

Value and markets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-328) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780226238340

0226238342

9780226238357

0226238350

OCLC:

76828864

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