Economics of the Law: Torts, Contracts, Property, Litigation

Economics of the Law: Torts, Contracts, Property, Litigation
ISBN-10
0195103904
ISBN-13
9780195103908
Category
Law and economics
Pages
236
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Thomas J. Miceli

Description

The field of law and economics has matured to a point where scholars employ economic methods to understand the nature of legal rules and guide legal reform. This text is a broad survey of that scholarship as it has been applied to problems in tort, contracts, property and litigation.

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