UID:
almafu_9959232425002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (760 p.)
ISBN:
9780674043497
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0674043499
Inhalt:
In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the economic 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.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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SUMMARY OF CONTENTS --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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1. Introduction --
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I. PROPERTY LAW --
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2. Definition, Justification, and Emergence of Property Rights --
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3. Division of Property Rights --
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4. Acquisition and Transfer of Property --
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5. Conflict and Cooperation in the Use of Property: The Problem of Externalities --
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6. Public Property --
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7. Property Rights in Information --
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II. ACCIDENT LAW --
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8. Liability and Deterrence: Basic Theory --
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9. Liability and Deterrence: Firms --
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10. Extensions of the Analysis of Deterrence --
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11. Liability, Risk-Bearing, and Insurance --
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12. Liability and Administrative Costs --
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III. CONTRACT LAW --
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13. Overview of Contracts --
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14. Contract Formation --
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15. Production Contracts --
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16. Other Types of Contract --
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IV. LITIGATION AND THE LEGAL PROCESS --
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17. Basic Theory of Litigation --
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18. Extensions of the Basic Theory --
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19. General Topics on the Legal Process --
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V. PUBLIC LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL LAW --
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20. Deterrence with Monetary Sanctions --
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21. Deterrence with Nonmonetary Sanctions --
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22. Extensions of the Theory of Deterrence --
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23. Incapacitation, Rehabilitation, and Retribution --
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24. Criminal Law --
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VI. GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE LAW --
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25. The General Structure of the Law and Its Optimality --
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VII. WELFARE ECONOMICS, MORALITY, AND THE LAW --
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26. Welfare Economics and Morality --
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27. Implications for the Analysis of Law --
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28. Income Distributional Equity and the Law --
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29. Concluding Observations --
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References --
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Author Index --
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Subject Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780674011557
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0674011554
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4159/9780674043497
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