Encyclopedia of Law and Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Law and Economics write by Jürgen Georg Backhaus. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Encyclopedia of Law and Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Law and Economics deals with the economic analysis of legal relations, legal provisions, laws and regulations and is a research field which has a long tradition in economics. It was lost after the expulsion of some of the leading economists from Germany during 1933 to 1938, but then revived in Chicago. Both the subject of Law of Economics and the need for a concise Encyclopedia is particularly relevant in Europe today. Currently in the European Union there are several different legal cultures: the Anglo-Saxon legal framework, the German legal framework, which for example also includes Greece, and the Roman legal family—three jurisdictions which have to be covered with one and the same theory. In the EU, the task of the European Commission to interact with the various European jurisdictions means different legal cultures collaborating and some degree of harmonization is necessary. The result is an immediate need, if only for the science, to show how a given problem is solved in each legal tradition and jurisdiction. This Encyclopedia provides both a common language and precise definitions in the field, which will be useful in the future to avoid misunderstandings during harmonization of EU Law
The Future of Law and Economics
The Future of Law and Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Future of Law and Economics write by Guido Calabresi. This book was released on 2016-01-28. The Future of Law and Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite, strain, “economic analysis of law,” examines the legal system in the light of economic theory and shows how economics might render law more effective. The second strain, law and economics, gives equal status to law, and explores how the more realistic, less theoretical discipline of law can lead to improvements in economic theory. It is the latter approach that Judge Calabresi advocates, in a series of eloquent, thoughtful essays that will appeal to students and scholars alike.
Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law
Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law write by Steven Shavell. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. 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.
The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements
The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements write by Gian Luigi Albano. This book was released on 2016-04-28. The Law and Economics of Framework Agreements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the increasing demand for a logical understanding of how framework agreement should be used and implemented.
The Rise of Law and Economics
The Rise of Law and Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Law and Economics write by George L. Priest. This book was released on 2020-03-03. The Rise of Law and Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a history—though, intentionally, a brief history—of the rise of law and economics as a field of thought in the U.S. college and law school academy, though the field has expanded to Europe and South America and will expand further as other legal systems develop. This book explains the origins of the field and the sources of its growth during its formative period. It describes the intellectual roots of the field, and the field’s relationship to the understanding of the role of the legal system in directing the functioning of the economy. It describes the effect of the Great Depression and the expansion of governmental power on advancing the functional approach. The book then addresses the work of Aaron Director, during the late 1950s, on focusing economic analysis as a means of understanding the effects of the legal and regulatory system on the allocation of resources in the society. Then it turns to the subsequent intellectual founders of the field—Ronald Coase, Guido Calabresi, and Richard Posner—and attempts to explain the significance of their work. It also discusses the efforts of Robert Bork and Henry Manne toward the influence of law and economics on public policy. The book ends with the founding of the American Law and Economics Association in 1991. This is an essential companion to law and economics texts for undergraduate law and economic students and, especially, a general supplement to first-year casebooks for law school students.
