Economics of comparative law / edited by Gerrit De Geest.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geest, Gerrit de.

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Economic approaches to law ; 24.

Economic approaches to law ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative law--Economic aspects.

Comparative law.

Law and economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (680 p.) : ill. ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : E. Elgar, 2009.

Summary:

Comparative law and economics is an interdisciplinary research field in which differences among legal systems are analyzed from an economic point of view. The papers in this path-breaking collection illustrate those differences, describe their economic effects and discover which legal rules or systems are optimal from an economic viewpoint. The volume brings together twenty important contributions on property law, contract law, tort law, corporate law, intellectual property law, litigation law and the legal system, and shows how economics can enrich the study of comparative law.

Contents:

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Black, Bernard, Reinier Kraakman and Anna Tarassova (2000), 'Russian Privatization and Corporate Governance: What Went Wrong?', Stanford Law Review, 52, July, 1731-808.

Coase, Ronald H. (1937), 'The Nature of the Firm', Economica, 13, 169-82.

Coase, Ronald H. (1960), 'The Problem of Social Cost', Journal of Law and Economics, 3, 1-44.

De Geest, Gerrit and Roger Van den Bergh (eds) (2004), Comparative Law and Economics, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 3 volumes.

Demsetz, Harold (1967), 'Toward a Theory of Property Rights', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, LVII (2), May, 347-59.

Haley, John O. (1978), 'The Myth of the Reluctant Litigant', Journal of Japanese Studies, 4, 359-90.

Hayek, Friedrich (1960), The Constitution of Liberty, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Michelman, Frank I. (1982), 'Ethics, Economics, and the Law of Property', in J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (eds), Nomos XXIV: Ethics, Economics and the Law, New York: New York University Press, 3-40.

Olson, Mancur (1982), The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.

Parisi, Francesco (2002), 'Entropy in Property', American Journal of Comparative Law, 50 (3), Summer, 595-632.

Ramseyer, J. Mark and Minoru Nakazato (1989), 'The Rational Litigant: Settlement Amounts and Verdict Rates in Japan', Journal of Legal Studies, XVIII (2), June, 263-90

Roe, Mark J. (1993), 'Some Differences in Corporate Structure in Germany, Japan, and the United States', Yale Law Journal, 102 (8), June, 1927-2003

Weber, Max (1922), Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology, New York: Bedminster Press (ed. Roth and Wittich, 1968).

Adam Smith ([1776], 1976), 'Of the Division of Stock' and 'Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the antient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire', in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book II, Chapter I and Book III, Chapter II, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 279-85, 381-96

Douglass C. North and Robert Paul Thomas (1973), 'The Issue' and 'France and Spain - The Also-rans', in The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Chapters 1 and 10, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1-8, 120-31, Bibliography

Saul Levmore (1986), 'Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law', Tulane Law Review, 61 (2), December, 235-87

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny (1998), 'Law and Finance', Journal of Political Economy, 106 (6), December, 1113-55

Steven N.S. Cheung (1969), 'Transaction Costs, Risk Aversion, and the Choice of Contractual Arrangements', Journal of Law and Economics, 12 (1), April, 23-42

Martin J. Bailey (1992), 'Approximate Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights', Journal of Law and Economics, 35 (1), April, 183-98

Michael A. Heller (1998), 'The Tragedy of the Anticommons: Property in the Transition from Marx to Markets', Harvard Law Review, 111 (3), January, 621-88

Robert D. Cooter (1999), 'Mongolia: Avoiding Tragedy in the World's Largest Commons', in Lawrence A. Frolik (ed.), Law and Evolutionary Biology: Selected Essays in Honor of Margaret Gruter on her 80th Birthday, Portola, CA: Gruter Institute for Law and Behavioral Research, 87-109

Erica Field (2005), 'Property Rights and Investment in Urban Slums', Journal of the European Economic Association, 3 (2-3), April-May, 279-90

Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer (2002), 'Legal Origins', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117 (4), November, 1193-229

Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2003), 'Courts', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118 (2), May, 453-517

Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine (2003), 'Law and Finance: Why does Legal Origin Matter?', Journal of Comparative Economics, 31 (4), December, 653-75

Tom Ginsburg and Glenn Hoetker (2006), 'The Unreluctant Litigant? An Empirical Analysis of Japan's Turn to Litigation', Journal of Legal Studies, 35 (1), January, 31-59

Gillian K. Hadfield (2008), 'The Levers of Legal Design: Institutional Determinants of the Quality of Law', Journal of Comparative Economics, 36 (1), March, 43-73

Henry Hansmann and Marina Santilli (1997), 'Authors' and Artists' Moral Rights: A Comparative Legal and Economic Analysis', Journal of Legal Studies, 26 (1), January, 95-143

Ronald J. Gilson (1999), 'The Legal Infrastructure of High Technology Industrial Districts: Silicon Valley, Route 128, and Covenants Not to Compete', New York University Law Review, 74 (3), June, 575-629

Simon Johnson, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer (2000), 'Tunneling', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 90 (2), May, 22-7

Henrik Lando and Caspar Rose (2004), 'On the Enforcement of Specific Performance in Civil Law Countries', International Review of Law and Economics, 24 (4), December, 473-87

Michael L. Smith (2005), 'Deterrence and Origin of Legal System: Evidence from 1950-1999', American Law and Economics Review, 7 (2), Fall, 350-78

Francesco Parisi, Vernon Valentine Palmer and Mauro Bussani (2007), 'The Comparative Law and Economics of Pure Economic Loss', International Review of Law and Economics, 27 (1), March, 29-48.

Notes:

The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78536-279-8