Economics of the Law: Torts, Contracts, Property and Litigation
- ISBN-10
- 128045251X
- ISBN-13
- 9781280452512
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01-01
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- 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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