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  • Handbook of Law and Economicsby A. Mitchell Polinsky; Steven Shavell

    Elsevier Science 2007; US$ 150.00

    Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions ? for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists.... more...

  • Principles and Methods of Law and Economicsby Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 35.00

    The book juxtaposes economic analysis with moral philosophy, political theory, egalitarianism, and other methodological principles. more...

  • Economic Analysis of the Lawby Donald A. Wittman

    John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 149.95

    Providing students with a solid grounding in the economic analysis of the law, this reader brings together edited versions of diverse and challenging journal articles into a unified collection. Chosen to provoke thought and discussion, these carefully streamlined articles apply economic theories to many aspects of the law, from intellectual property,... more...

  • Law & Capitalismby Curtis J. Milhaupt; Katharina Pistor

    University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00

    Recent high-profile corporate scandals—such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Livedoor in Japan—demonstrate challenges to legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, Law and Capitalism examines such contemporary... more...

  • Law and the Politics of Reconciliationby Scott Veitch

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 134.95

    This collection of essays by an international group of authors explores the ways in which law and legal institutions are used in countries coming to terms with traumatic pasts, and, in some cases, traumatic presents. Drawing on work in politics, philosophy, theology, sociology and law, this book will appeal to a wide audience of researchers and academics... more...

  • Images in Lawby Anne Wagner

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00

    Presenting perspectives on legal theory and practice, this volume examines how visual images of the law influence interpretation and execution of the law in ways not discernible from written texts. more...

  • Efficiency Instead of Justice?by Klaus Mathis; Deborah Shannon

    Springer 2009; US$ 99.99

    Employs the concepts and reasoning methods of modern economic theory so as to gain a deeper understanding of legal problems. This book states that it is the role of the law to encourage market competition and, where the market fails because transaction costs are too high, to simulate the result of competitive markets. more...

  • Double Visionby Randy Frances Kandel

    Wiley 2009; US$ 33.95

    NAPA Bulletin is a peer reviewed occasional publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, dedicated to the practical problem-solving and policy applications of anthropological knowledge and methods. peer reviewed publication of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology dedicated to the practical problem-solving... more...

  • Optional Lawby Ian Ayres

    University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 46.00

    Spurred by the advances in option theory that have been remaking financial and economic scholarship over the past thirty years, a revolution is taking shape in the way legal scholars conceptualize property and the way it is protected by the law. Ian Ayres's Optional Law explores how option theory is overthrowing many accepted wisdoms and producing... more...

  • BilderRechtby Volker Boehme-Nealer

    Springer 2009; US$ 84.99

    Wir leben in einer Bilderwelt. Die Folgen sind - im wahrsten Sinn des Worts - unübersehbar. Was bedeutet die Dominanz der Bilder für das Recht? Bisher ist das Recht sehr bilderskeptisch. Das wird kaum so bleiben können, denn wenn sich ein Recht zu weit vom Leben entfernt, wird es über kurz oder lang an Bedeutung verlieren. Welche Chancen und Risiken... more...