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Issues in Law and Economics de Harold Winter

Issues in Law and Economics

Autor Harold Winter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2017
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With Issues in Law and Economics, Harold Winter takes readers through these and other recent and controversial questions. In an accessible and engaging manner, Winter shows these legal issues can be reexamined through the use of economic analysis. Using real-world cases to highlight issues, Winter offers step-by-step analysis, guiding readers through the identification of the trade-offs involved in each issue and assessing the economic evidence from scholarly research before exploring how this research may be used to guide policy recommendations. The book is divided into four sections, covering the basic practice areas of property, contracts, torts, and crime, with a fifth section devoted to a concise introduction to the topic of behavioral law and economics. Each chapter concludes with a series of thought-provoking discussion questions that provide readers the opportunity to further explore important ideas and concepts.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226249629
ISBN-10: 022624962X
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

Harold Winter is professor of economics at Ohio University. He is the author of several books, including Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
 

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction Applying Economic Reasoning to the Law
Part I. Property
Chapter 1. Should Body Parts Be Salable? Moore v. The Regents of the University of California (1990) and the Market for Human Tissue
Chapter 2. Can Anyone Own the Sunlight? Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc. (1959) and the Assignment and Protection of Property Rights
Chapter 3. Should Eminent Domain Power Be Available to Private Companies? Poletown Neighborhood Council v. City of Detroit (1981) and the Economics of Takings
Chapter 4. Will File Sharing Ruin the Music Industry? A&M Records v. Napster (2001) and the Economics of Copyright Protection
Part II. Contracts
Chapter 5. Should the Courts Encourage Contractual Breach? Acme Mills & Elevator Co. v. J.C. Johnson (1911) and the Economics of Breaking Promises
Chapter 6. Should the Courts Void a Contractual Clause They Deem Unfair? Williams v. Walker Thomas Furniture Co. (1965) and the Paradox of Stipulated Damages
Part III. Torts
Chapter 7. Should Tort Liability Be Governed by Fault or No-Fault Rules? Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad v. American Cyanamid (1990) and the Economics of the Great Debate in Tort Law
Chapter 8. Should Firms Be Held Liable for Product Defects? Voss v. Black and Decker (1983) and the Economics of Product Liability
Chapter 9. Does Malpractice Liability Induce Physicians to Provide Too Much Health Care? Helling v. Carey (1974) and the Economics of Medical Malpractice Law
Part IV. Crime and Punishment
Chapter 10. Are Criminals Rational? Gary Becker and the Dawn of Rational Crime Analysis (1968)
Chapter 11. Does Prison Reduce Crime through Deterrence or Incapacitation? Ewing v. California (2003) and the Economics of the Three-Strikes Law
Chapter 12. Is Racial Profiling a Nondiscriminatory Policing Strategy? Anderson v. Cornejo (2004) and the Economics of Police Search Procedures
Chapter 13. Do Judges Discriminate When Sentencing? The Sentencing Reform Act and Federal Sentencing Guidelines (1984)
Part V. Behavioral Law and Economics
Chapter 14. How Does Behavioral Economics Contribute to the Economic Analysis of Law? A Brief Introduction to the Marriage of Economics and Psychology
Index

Recenzii

“With nary a graph or algebraic expression, Winter does an excellent job of explaining complex issues and technical material in an admirably clear and accessible way, using cases to motivate topics across the major common law fields— torts, contracts, property, and crime—and showing how economists think about legal issues by boiling them down to fundamental economic problems.”

“Winter’s terrific book is an unqualified success in engaging students in the application of economic analysis to legal issues. After beginning each chapter’s discussion by describing a pivotal legal decision in the area, Issues in Law and Economics provides a succinct examination of the economic reasoning relevant to that decision. Each chapter then provides a thorough, insightful, and easily accessible examination of the economic analysis that is pertinent to the principal legal fields.”

“Issues in Law and Economics furnishes readers with a readily understandable and highly interesting overview of the new and influential field of law and economics. Each chapter begins with a legal case or example and uses that as a springboard for an analytical (but nontechnical) discussion. Such topics as markets in human organs, copyright protection in the music industry, and decision making by criminals exemplify the breadth of Winter’s engaging treatment of law and economics.”