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Economic analysis of law /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Posner, Richard A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, [1986]
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Law > United States.
Trade regulation > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of economic reasoning
  • The economic approach to law
  • Property
  • Contract rights and remedies
  • Family law
  • Tort law
  • Criminal law
  • The common law, legal history, and jurisprudence
  • The theory of monopoly
  • The antitrust laws
  • The regulation of the employment relation
  • Public utility and common carrier regulation
  • The choice between regulation and common law
  • Corporations (with a glance at lending and bankruptcy)
  • Financial markets
  • Income inequalities, distributive justice, and poverty
  • Taxation
  • The transmission of wealth at death
  • The market, the adversary system, and the legislative process as methods of resource allocation
  • The process of legal rulemaking
  • Civil and criminal procedure
  • Law enforcement
  • The administrative process
  • The nature and functions of the constitution
  • Economic due process
  • The economics of federalism
  • Racial discrimination
  • The marketplace of ideas and the primacy of political over economic rights
  • The Fourth Amendment.