Authors: Jeffrey L. Harrison, McCabe G. Harrison
ISBN-13: 9780314180179, ISBN-10: 0314180176
Format: Other Format
Publisher: West Group
Date Published: June 2007
Edition: 4th Edition
Expert coverage of the classic issues, including basic price theory; definitions of efficiency; the Coase Theorem; and the economics of contract law, tort law, regulation, and antitrust. Text also discusses less conventional topics such as public choice, what it means to be a rational maximizer of self-interest, the assumptions underlying economic analysis to law, limitations on the application of economic theory to law, the theory of second best, and the prisoner's dilemma.
Preface | ||
Table of Cases | ||
Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
Ch. 2 | An Introduction to Price Theory | 6 |
Ch. 3 | Terms and Controversies in Law and Economics | 27 |
Ch. 4 | The Coase Theorem and Related Property Issues | 56 |
Ch. 5 | Contract Law Applications | 82 |
Ch. 6 | Economics of Tort Law | 142 |
Ch. 7 | The Economics of Anti-trust | 183 |
Ch. 8 | The Economics of Government Regulation | 219 |
Ch. 9 | Public Choice | 257 |
Index | 291 |