Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law
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Steven Shavell
简介
In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the econoic approach to the building blocks of our legal system, namely, property law, tort law, contract law and criminal law. He also examines the litigation process as well as welfare economics and morality. Aimed at a broad audience, this book requires neither a legal background nor technical economics or mathematics to understand it. Because of its breadth, analytical clarity and general accessibility, it is likely to serve as a definitive work in the economic analysis of law.
contents
1. Introduction
I. Property Law
2. Definition, Justification, and Emergence of Property Rights
3. Division of Property Rights
4. Acquisition and Transfer of Property
5. Conflict and Cooperation in the Use of Property: The Problem of Externalities
6. Public Property
7. Property Rights in Information
II. Accident Law
8. Liability and Deterrence: Basic Theory
9. Liability and Deterrence: Firms
10. Extensions of the Analysis of Deterrence
11. Liability, Risk-Bearing, and Insurance
12. Liability and Administrative Costs
III. Contract Law
13. Overview of Contracts
14. Contract Formation
15. Production Contracts
16. Other Types of Contract
IV. Litigation and the Legal Process
17. Basic Theory of Litigation
18. Extensions of the Basic Theory
19. General Topics on the Legal Process
V. Public Law Enforcement and Criminal Law
20. Deterrence with Monetary Sanctions
21. Deterrence with Nonmonetary Sanctions
22. Extensions of the Theory of Deterrence
23. Incapacitation, Rehabilitation, and Retribution
24. Criminal Law
VI. General Structure of the Law
25. General Structure of the Law and Its Optimality
VII. Welfare Economics, Morality, and the Law
26. Welfare Economics and Morality
27. Implications for the Analysis of Law
28. Income Distributional Equity and the Law
29. Concluding Observations.
