Law and Economics
- ISBN-10
- 0321336348
- ISBN-13
- 9780321336347
- Series
- Law and Economics
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 582
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Addison-Wesley Longman
- Authors
- Robert Cooter, Thomas Ulen
Description
Law and economics has become a central course in U.S. legal education and for students majoring in topics like economics, political science, and philosophy. With the Fifth Edition of their best-selling text, Cooter and Ulen provide a clear introduction to economic analysis and its application to legal rules and institutions that is accessible to any student who has taken principles of microeconomics. An Introduction to Law and Economics; A Review of Microeconomic Theory; An Introduction to Law and Legal Institutions; An Economic Theory of Property; Topics in the Economics of Property Law; An Economic Theory of Contract; Topics in the Economics of Contract Law; An Economic Theory of Tort Law; Topics in the Economics of Tort Liability; An Economic Theory of the Legal Process; An Economic Theory of Crime and Punishment; Topics in the Economics of Crime and Punishment. For all readers interested in law and economics.
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Other editions
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- 2021-09-14
- 588 pages
- Ebook
- Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
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- 2019-08-31
- 232 pages
- Ebook
- Vernon Press
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