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The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition
Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus
This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular and authoritative reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all the significant issues, and breaks new ground by bringing together widely dispersed yet theoretically congruent ideas.
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- Published in print:
- 28 Sep 2005
- ISBN:
- 9781845420321
- eISBN:
- 9781845425500
- Pages:
- 784
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- The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Coase Theorem and Transaction Cost Economics in the Law
- Chapter 2: Property Rights and their Partitioning
- Chapter 3: Legal Change in Economic Analysis
- Chapter 4: Positive, Normative and Functional Schools in Law and Economics
- Chapter 5: Commons and Anticommons
- Chapter 6: The Economics of Tort Law
- Chapter 7: Family
- Chapter 8: Inheritance
- Chapter 9: Intellectual Property and the Markets of Ideas
- Chapter 10: Incomplete Contracts and Institutions
- Chapter 11: Central Bank
- Chapter 12: Constitutional Economics I
- Chapter 13: Constitutional Economics II
- Chapter 14: Administrative Law and Economics
- Chapter 15: Property
- Chapter 16: The European Union’s Institutional Design
- Chapter 17: Subsidiarity
- Chapter 18: Labour Contracts
- Chapter 19: Company Board Representation
- Chapter 20: Employment Security through Dismissal Protection: Market versus Policy Failures
- Chapter 21: Structures of Public Enterprise
- Chapter 22: Environmental Law and Economics
- Chapter 23: Environmental Policies Choice as an Issue of Informational Efficiency
- Chapter 24: Tradeable Emission Rights
- Chapter 25: Regulatory Taxation
- Chapter 26: Dispute Resolution
- Chapter 27: Judicial Independence
- Chapter 28: General Norms and Customs
- Chapter 29: Science as a Source of Law
- Chapter 30: Social Science as a Source of the Law
- Chapter 31: Cognitive Science
- Chapter 32: Connections with Law and Society Research
- Chapter 33: Towards an Ideal Economic Analysis of a Legal Problem
- Chapter 34: Cesare Beccaria (1738–94)
- Chapter 35: Franz Böhm (1895–1977)
- Chapter 36: John R. Commons (1862–1945)
- Chapter 37: Walter Eucken (1891–1950)
- Chapter 38: Otto von Gierke (1841–1921)
- Chapter 39: Augusto Graziani (1865–1938)
- Chapter 40: Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) – Legal Economist
- Chapter 41: Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992)
- Chapter 42: Theodor Herzl (1860–1904)
- Chapter 43: Rudolf von Jhering (1818–92) and the Economics of Justice
- Chapter 44: Franz Klein (1854–1926)
- Chapter 45: Etienne Laspeyres (1834–1913)
- Chapter 46: Friedrich List (1789–1846)
- Chapter 47: Achille Loria (1857–1943)
- Chapter 48: Karl Marx (1818–83) and Friedrich Engels (1820–95)
- Chapter 49: Carl Menger (1840–1921)
- Chapter 50: Plato (c. 427–349 BC)
- Chapter 51: Wilhelm Roscher (1817–94)
- Chapter 52: Emil Sax (1845–1927)
- Chapter 53: Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917)
- Chapter 54: Adam Smith (1723–90)
- Chapter 55: Werner Sombart (1863–1941)
- Chapter 56: Lorenz von Stein (1815–90)
- Chapter 57: George Joseph Stigler (1911–92)
- Chapter 58: Pietro Trimarchi (1934–)
- Chapter 59: Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
- Chapter 60: Max Weber (1864–1920)
- Chapter 61: Christian Wolff (1679–1754)
- Index
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- The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Coase Theorem and Transaction Cost Economics in the Law
- Chapter 2: Property Rights and their Partitioning
- Chapter 3: Legal Change in Economic Analysis
- Chapter 4: Positive, Normative and Functional Schools in Law and Economics
- Chapter 5: Commons and Anticommons
- Chapter 6: The Economics of Tort Law
- Chapter 7: Family
- Chapter 8: Inheritance
- Chapter 9: Intellectual Property and the Markets of Ideas
- Chapter 10: Incomplete Contracts and Institutions
- Chapter 11: Central Bank
- Chapter 12: Constitutional Economics I
- Chapter 13: Constitutional Economics II
- Chapter 14: Administrative Law and Economics
- Chapter 15: Property
- Chapter 16: The European Union’s Institutional Design
- Chapter 17: Subsidiarity
- Chapter 18: Labour Contracts
- Chapter 19: Company Board Representation
- Chapter 20: Employment Security through Dismissal Protection: Market versus Policy Failures
- Chapter 21: Structures of Public Enterprise
- Chapter 22: Environmental Law and Economics
- Chapter 23: Environmental Policies Choice as an Issue of Informational Efficiency
- Chapter 24: Tradeable Emission Rights
- Chapter 25: Regulatory Taxation
- Chapter 26: Dispute Resolution
- Chapter 27: Judicial Independence
- Chapter 28: General Norms and Customs
- Chapter 29: Science as a Source of Law
- Chapter 30: Social Science as a Source of the Law
- Chapter 31: Cognitive Science
- Chapter 32: Connections with Law and Society Research
- Chapter 33: Towards an Ideal Economic Analysis of a Legal Problem
- Chapter 34: Cesare Beccaria (1738–94)
- Chapter 35: Franz Böhm (1895–1977)
- Chapter 36: John R. Commons (1862–1945)
- Chapter 37: Walter Eucken (1891–1950)
- Chapter 38: Otto von Gierke (1841–1921)
- Chapter 39: Augusto Graziani (1865–1938)
- Chapter 40: Robert Lee Hale (1884–1969) – Legal Economist
- Chapter 41: Friedrich August von Hayek (1899–1992)
- Chapter 42: Theodor Herzl (1860–1904)
- Chapter 43: Rudolf von Jhering (1818–92) and the Economics of Justice
- Chapter 44: Franz Klein (1854–1926)
- Chapter 45: Etienne Laspeyres (1834–1913)
- Chapter 46: Friedrich List (1789–1846)
- Chapter 47: Achille Loria (1857–1943)
- Chapter 48: Karl Marx (1818–83) and Friedrich Engels (1820–95)
- Chapter 49: Carl Menger (1840–1921)
- Chapter 50: Plato (c. 427–349 BC)
- Chapter 51: Wilhelm Roscher (1817–94)
- Chapter 52: Emil Sax (1845–1927)
- Chapter 53: Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917)
- Chapter 54: Adam Smith (1723–90)
- Chapter 55: Werner Sombart (1863–1941)
- Chapter 56: Lorenz von Stein (1815–90)
- Chapter 57: George Joseph Stigler (1911–92)
- Chapter 58: Pietro Trimarchi (1934–)
- Chapter 59: Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)
- Chapter 60: Max Weber (1864–1920)
- Chapter 61: Christian Wolff (1679–1754)
- Index