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The Economic Structure Of The Law |
Richard A. Posner, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, US
Edited by Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, US and Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy
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| 2000 |
512 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 85898 641 8 |
£88.00 |
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Judge Richard A. Posner is internationally regarded as a leading exponent and a founding father of the law and economics movement. This volume draws together a selection of his most important papers on the methodology and the theory of law and economics to create a valuable collection for scholars and practitioners in the field. It includes a coherent and informative introduction by Professor Francesco Parisi containing salient insights into Judge Posner’s work.
Themes explored in this volume include:
• the economics of common law
• the criterion of wealth maximization
• an economic approach to judicial rulemaking
• the application of finance theory to law
• the methodology of law and economics.
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Contents: Introduction: The Legacy of Richard Posner and the Methodology of Law and Economics Part I: The Methodology of Law and Economics Part II: Wealth, Maximization and the Law Part III: Courts and Judicial Rulemaking Part IV: The Application of Finance Theory to Law Index
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