To date, the formulation of a systematic theory of the organization of markets has proved to be a difficult task and remains unfinished. Nevertheless, explanations do exist as to why, under given conditions, the basic activities of trade...
This major book – edited by a leading authority – presents a careful selection of papers which analyse international law from a rational choice perspective. Interdisciplinary in scope, it includes work by professors in law, political sci...
For this wide-ranging collection, Professor Miller has drawn on the work of the best-known scholars in this field to explore the relationship between economics and law in ancient societies. Topics covered include: the methodology of anci...
‘Michael Heller’s Commons and Anticommons could not be more timely. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have long been familiar with the problems of the commons, but far less so with respect to the anticommons. No one has done mo...
This landmark collection of essays provides an overview of the essential theories and methods used in the study of law and economics. The editors’ careful selection includes substantial contributions from other disciplines that shed new ...
‘The study of the interaction between legal institutions and economic development is one of the most important research areas in economics and law. Professors Cooter and Parisi have produced a remarkable anthology. Their selection of art...
In this thought-provoking collection, Professor Epstein brings together the leading articles which explore the economic approach to the two major issues of constitutionalism. The first volume deals with structural protections that are af...
Comparative law and economics is an interdisciplinary research field in which differences among legal systems are analyzed from an economic point of view. The papers in this path-breaking collection illustrate those differences, describe...
‘Jeff Rachlinski has assembled an essential and timely introduction to the literature of behavioural law and economics: the key articles, central themes, and ongoing criticisms of the approach. The text will serve as a standard reference...
Edited by leading scholars, this set of previously published papers critically examines theoretical foundations as well as empirical and experimental evidence on arbitration behaviour. With emphasis upon international commercial dispute ...
Edited by Richard R.W. Brooks, Nathaniel O. Keohane, Douglas A. Kysar
This two-volume set presents essential articles from both the leading edge of methodological innovation in environmental law and economics and the bedrock of theory upon which all such innovations are built. An impressive collection that...
The Economics of Contracts provides a guided tour to the leading ideas in contract theory. It assembles some of the foundational writings on contracting under limited and asymmetric information, incentives and mechanism design. It contai...