Concepts in law and economics : a guide for the curious / Jim Leitzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leitzel, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and economics.

Law--Economic aspects--United States.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Economics students are taught to 'think like an economist' and law students are taught to 'think like a lawyer'. But what of the burgeoning, intersecting discipline of Law and Economics? How does someone learn to 'think like a person in the field of Law and Economics'? This title points the way by applying the major methods of Law and Economics to issues such as art vandalism, sales of human kidneys, and the ownership of meteorites.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Original of Laura""; ""Choice in the Shadow of the Law""; ""Outline of the Tour""; ""1. E pluribus unum [One Out of Many]""; ""Robin""; ""Efficiency""; ""Jeremy Bentham""; ""Pareto Improvements""; ""Trade and Efficiency""; ""The Art of the Deal""; ""Willingness-to-Pay""; ""Why Maximize Aggregate Well-Being?""; ""Just Compensation""; ""Employing Efficiency""; ""Common Law and Civil Law""; ""The Coase Theorem""; ""Establishing a Market to Erode Rent Controls""; ""The Coase Corollary""

""More on Property Rights and Efficiency: The Tragedy of the Commons""""The Reverse of the Medal: Property Rights and the Anticommons""; ""An Aside on View Blocking""; ""What Happens When a Property Right Is Infringed?""; ""2. The Sixty-Minute Law School""; ""Property, Mostly a Reprise""; ""Who Owns Meteorites?""; ""Contracts""; ""Expectation Damages and Efficient Breach""; ""Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on Bad Men and the Law""; ""Accidents""; ""Strict Liability""; ""Negligence""; ""Crime""; ""Purposes of Punishing Crime""; ""Efficiency When?""; ""Retribution?""; ""Standards of Proof""

""3. What's Done Is Done?""""Bart and Lance""; ""Chicago Dibs""; ""Patents""; ""Advance Market Commitments""; ""Preventive and Punitory Measures""; ""Firearm Regulation""; ""John Stuart Mill""; ""Low Probability, High Punishment Regimes""; ""Destruction of Property: What's Done Cannot Be Undone?""; ""Moral Rights: What's Done Cannot Be Redone?""; ""Defacing or Improving?""; ""Property and Theft""; ""An Aside on the State of Nature""; ""Rivalry""; ""Public Goods""; ""Intellectual Property: What's Done Can Be Done Repeatedly""; ""Nabokov and Existence Value""; ""4. Squeezing a Balloon""

""The Peltzman Effect""""Endangered Species""; ""Art Again: Resale Rights, or Droit de Suite""; ""Using the Law to Serve Distributional Goals""; ""Monetary or In-Kind Subsidies?""; ""Laws and Distributing Pie""; ""Squeezing Copyright""; ""Creative Commons and Open Access""; ""The De Facto Liberalization of the Copyright Regime""; ""A World without Copyright""; ""Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails""; ""Copyright Vacuums""; ""Fashion Design""; ""Comedy""; ""Squeezing Newspapers""; ""Hyperlocal News""; ""Deflating Subsidies""

""5. Deorum injuriae Diis curae [Injuries to the Gods Will Be Remedied By the Gods]""""Low-Cost Avoider or Insurer""; ""Products Liability""; ""Comparative Negligence""; ""Foreseeable Misuse and Attractive Nuisance""; ""Mill and the Harm Principle""; ""Pecuniary Externalities""; ""Blocked Exchanges""; ""Kidney Markets""; ""The Iranian Kidney Transplant Program""; ""The Parthenon Marbles in London""; ""Statutes of Limitation and Adverse Possession""; ""Should the Parthenon Marbles Be Returned?""; ""6. Humanity's Crooked Timber""; ""Enforcing Contracts""; ""Lochner v. New York (1905)""

""Dealing with Uncertainty""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical refererences and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-021399-X

0-19-021400-7

0-19-021398-1