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"Economic debates about markets and freedom from the late 1940s onwards focused increasingly on how laws and regulation affected economic behavior, and how economics influenced legal decision-making. By the late 1950s the term "law and economics" came into use to refer to the application of economic analysis to legal problems. The overlap between legal and political systems also led to issues in law and economics being raised in political economy, constitutional economics, and political science. Concepts in Law and Economics: A Guide for the Curious provides a comprehensive integration of the fields of law and economics. In clear prose, Jim Leitzel challenges traditional approaches to law and economics and uncovers common themes that cut across the two fields, providing readers with a means of integrating their knowledge to examine problems through both a legal and economic lens. This book covers the major methods of law and economics and applies those methods to various issues, including art vandalism, sales of human kidneys, and the ownership of meteorites. Compact yet comprehensive, this is an ideal introduction to a vast number of concepts and controversies in the fields of law and economics. Economics students, law students, and those with a general interest in the social sciences will find Concepts in Law and Economics an interesting and engaging read, and will emerge with the necessary skills for thinking like a law and economics practitioner"--
"A comprehensive integration of the fields of law and economics"--
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 AnticommonsAn 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 MillLow 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 AccessThe 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 LondonStatutes 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; Unconscionability; Willpower Lapses; The Endowment Effect; Default Rules; Organ Donations, Reprise; Selling Kidneys; Vice, Rationality, and Defaults; Re-legalizing Drugs; An Option to Commit to Opting Out: Self-Exclusion; Preventive and Punitory Measures, Again; A Happy Ending?; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; References; Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.