Economic Foundations of Private Law (Elgar Critical Writings Reader,)
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Book Description
This paperback reader brings together seminal papers on law and economics, with special emphasis on the foundational contributions to the economics of property, contracts and torts. The growing influence of these writings in the judicial profession, and in the academic world, underscores the relevance and importance of these early contributions and the growing maturity of the law and economics movement. These seminal papers have provided the foundations for the development of an overarching economic theory of law and, most importantly, have opened new areas of research for present and future generations of jurists and economists alike.
The articles are arranged by theme, with topics including the methodological foundations of law and economics, the efficiency of the common law hypothesis, the economics of property law and the Coase theorem, the economics of contracts and the economics of tort law. The editors, themselves distinguished scholars in the field, have written a new introduction to accompany the readings.
About the Author
Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School and Francesco Parisi, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Program in Economics and the Law, J.M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University
Economic Foundations of Private Law (Elgar Critical Writings Reader,),Richard A. Posner,Francesco Parisi,Edward Elgar Publishing,1843760711,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Civil law,Economic aspects,Economics - General,Economics - Theory,Law and economics,Contract law,Criminal law,Economic theory & philosophy,Property, real estate, land & tenancy law,Torts / delicts
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