Foundations of economic analysis of law / Steven Shavell.

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Shavell, Steven, 1946- [author.]

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9780674043497
0674043499
0674011554
9780674011557

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340/.1 22

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K487.E3 S53 2004eb

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86.03

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Contents:

I. Property law. Definition, justification, and emergence of property rights -- Division of property rights -- Acquisition and transfer of property -- Conflict and cooperation in the use of property: the problem of externalities -- Public property -- Property rights in information -- II. Accident law. Liability and deterrence: basic theory -- Liability and deterrence: firms -- Extensions of the analysis of deterrence -- Liability, risk-bearing, and insurance -- Liability and administrative costs -- III. Contract law. Overview of contracts -- Contract formation -- Production contracts -- Other types of contract -- IV. Litigation and the legal process. Basic theory of litigation -- Extensions of the basic theory -- General topics on the legal process -- V. Public law enforcement and criminal law. Deterrence with monetary sanctions -- Deterrence with nonmonetary sanctions -- Extensions of the theory of deterrence -- Incapacitation, rehabilitation, and retribution -- Criminal law -- VI. General structure of the law. The general structure of the law and its optimality -- VII. Welfare economics, morality and the law. Welfare economics and morality -- Implications for the analysis of law -- Income distributional equity and the law -- Concluding observations.

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Summary: "What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, which are socially best? Such questions about the influence and desirability of laws have been investigated by legal scholars and economists in a new, rigorous, and systematic manner since the 1970s. Their approach, which is called economic, is widely considered to be intellectually compelling and to have revolutionized thinking about the law."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, which are socially best? Such questions about the influence and desirability of laws have been investigated by legal scholars and economists in a new, rigorous, and systematic manner since the 1970s. Their approach, which is called economic, is widely considered to be intellectually compelling and to have revolutionized thinking about the law."-- Provided by publisher.

Steven Shavell is Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

English.

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