Economics For Lawyers

Author : Richard A. Ippolito
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691121772

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Economics for Lawyers by Richard A. Ippolito Pdf

Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. Economics for Lawyers provides the essential tools to understand the economic basis of law. Through rigorous analysis illustrated with simple graphs and a wide range of legal examples, Richard Ippolito focuses on a few key concepts and shows how they play out in numerous applications. There are everyday problems: What is the social cost of legislation enforcing below-market prices, minimum wages, milk regulation, and noncompetitive pricing? Why are matinee movies cheaper than nighttime showings? And then there are broader questions: What is the patent system's role in the market for intellectual property rights? How does one think about externalities like airport noise? Is the free market, a regulated solution, or tort law the best way to deliver the "efficient amount of harm" in the workplace? What is the best approach to the question of economic compensation due to a person falsely imprisoned? Along the way, readers learn what economists mean when they talk about sorting, signaling, reputational assets, lemons markets, moral hazard, and adverse selection. They will learn a new vocabulary and a whole new way of thinking about the world they live in, and will be more productive in their professions.

Author : Richard A. Ippolito
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1400829224

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Economics for Lawyers by Richard A. Ippolito Pdf

Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. Economics for Lawyers provides the essential tools to understand the economic basis of law. Through rigorous analysis illustrated with simple graphs and a wide range of legal examples, Richard Ippolito focuses on a few key concepts and shows how they play out in numerous applications. There are everyday problems: What is the social cost of legislation enforcing below-market prices, minimum wages, milk regulation, and noncompetitive pricing? Why are matinee movies cheaper than nighttime showings? And then there are broader questions: What is the patent system's role in the market for intellectual property rights? How does one think about externalities like airport noise? Is the free market, a regulated solution, or tort law the best way to deliver the "efficient amount of harm" in the workplace? What is the best approach to the question of economic compensation due to a person falsely imprisoned? Along the way, readers learn what economists mean when they talk about sorting, signaling, reputational assets, lemons markets, moral hazard, and adverse selection. They will learn a new vocabulary and a whole new way of thinking about the world they live in, and will be more productive in their professions.

Author : Gunnar Niels,Helen Jenkins,James Kavanagh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199588510

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Economics for Competition Lawyers by Gunnar Niels,Helen Jenkins,James Kavanagh Pdf

Economics for Competition Lawyers provides a comprehensive explanation of the economic principles most relevant for competition law. Written specifically for competition lawyers, it uses real-world examples, is non-technical, and explains the key points from first principles.

Author : Henry N. Butler,Christopher R. Drahozal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 1594601860

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Economic Analysis for Lawyers by Henry N. Butler,Christopher R. Drahozal Pdf

The purpose of this casebook is to teach the principles of microeconomics. Economic Analysis for Lawyers presumes no prior training in economics and uses the same building block approach that is found in most microeconomics principles textbooks that are used in undergraduate economics classes. This book includes excerpted cases and other materials that illustrates the applicability of the economic principles to legal disputes and public policy issues. Fundamental principles are introduced in the first four chapters. Subsequent chapters build on these fundamentals by adding a detailed and sophisticated analysis in the general areas of monopoly, externalities, information, labor markets, risk, organizational economics, and financial economics. The result is a thorough introduction to the principles of microeconomics.

Author : Emanuel V. Towfigh,Niels Petersen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783471676

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Economic Methods for Lawyers by Emanuel V. Towfigh,Niels Petersen Pdf

Responding to the growing importance of economic reasoning in legal scholarship, this innovative work provides an essential introduction to the economic tools which can usefully be employed in legal reasoning. It is geared specifically towards those without a great deal of exposure to economic thinking and provides law students, legal scholars and practitioners with a practical toolbox to shape their writing, understanding and case preparation. The book’s clear focus on economic methods poses a refreshing change to conventional textbooks in this area, which tend to focus on content-related theories. Recognising that it is often difficult to derive adequate conclusions for legal arguments without first understanding the methodological limitations of economic studies, this book provides a comprehensive coverage of the most important economic concepts in order to bridge this gap. These include: • game theory • public choice and social choice theory • behavioural economics • empirical research design • basic statistics. Owing to its concise and accessible style, Economic Methods for Lawyers will provide an invaluable companion for legal scholars or practitioners who wish to utilise economic methods for developing legal argument.

Author : Katja Langenbucher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107081802

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Economic Transplants by Katja Langenbucher Pdf

Offers a comprehensive theory on the risks and benefits of incorporating economic theory in capital markets and corporate lawmaking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : 1663319308

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Antitrust Economics for Lawyers by Anonim Pdf

Author : David D. Friedman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781400823475

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Law's Order by David D. Friedman Pdf

What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims. This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting. Drawing on numerous commonsense examples, in addition to his extensive knowledge of Chicago-school economics, David D. Friedman offers a spirited defense of the economic view of law. He clarifies the relationship between law and economics in clear prose that is friendly to students, lawyers, and lay readers without sacrificing the intellectual heft of the ideas presented. Friedman is the ideal spokesman for an approach to law that is controversial not because it overturns the conclusions of traditional legal scholars--it can be used to advocate a surprising variety of political positions, including both sides of such contentious issues as capital punishment--but rather because it alters the very nature of their arguments. For example, rather than viewing landlord-tenant law as a matter of favoring landlords over tenants or tenants over landlords, an economic analysis makes clear that a bad law injures both groups in the long run. And unlike traditional legal doctrines, economics offers a unified approach, one that applies the same fundamental ideas to understand and evaluate legal rules in contract, property, crime, tort, and every other category of law, whether in modern day America or other times and places--and systems of non-legal rules, such as social norms, as well. This book will undoubtedly raise the discourse on the increasingly important topic of the economics of law, giving both supporters and critics of the economic perspective a place to organize their ideas.

Author : John Cirace
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781498549097

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Law, Economics, and Game Theory by John Cirace Pdf

This book uses game theory to explain conflict between individual self-interested behavior and cooperation in economic markets, lawsuits, and legislative bodies. It demonstrates the need for social regulation in addition to free markets and judicial decisions in common law cases.

Author : Mackaay, Ejan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788118262

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Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems by Mackaay, Ejan Pdf

This second edition of Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems substantially updates a unique work that presents the core ideas of law and economics for audiences primarily familiar with civil law systems.

Author : Bruno Deffains,Thierry Kirat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135697075

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Law and Economics in Civil Law Countries by Bruno Deffains,Thierry Kirat Pdf

The aim of the book is to highlight the law and economics issues confronting civil law countries.

Author : A. Mitchell Polinsky
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781543802887

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An Introduction to Law and Economics by A. Mitchell Polinsky Pdf

Distinguished by brevity, lucid writing, and well-chosen examples, An Introduction to Law and Economics, now in its Fifth Edition, focuses on a set of core topics that include property, contracts, torts, criminal law, and litigation. Avoiding specialized jargon and mathematics, Polinsky teaches students how to think like an economist and understand legal issues from an economic perspective. New to the Fifth Edition: A streamlining of the products liability chapter A revised discussion of the redistributive effects of legal rules to reflect more recent scholarship on this topic The addition of several other refinements in the text and in new footnotes An updated bibliography Professors and students will benefit from: Solid coverage of relevant economic principles A normative approach that illustrates how to assess legal rules and policies in terms of economic and social goals Clear explanations of concepts

Author : Aristides N. Hatzis,Nicholas Mercuro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317550327

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Law and Economics by Aristides N. Hatzis,Nicholas Mercuro Pdf

The Law and Economics approach to law dominates the intellectual discussion of nearly every doctrinal area of law in the United States and its influence is growing steadily throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. Numerous academics and practitioners are working in the field with a flow of uninterrupted scholarship that is unprecedented, as is its influence on the law. Academically every major law school in the United States has a Law and Economics program and the emergence of similar programs on other continents continues to accelerate. Despite its phenomenal growth, the area is also the target of an ongoing critique by lawyers, philosophers, psychologists, social scientists, even economists since the late 1970s. While the critique did not seem to impede the development of the field, it certainly has helped it to become more sophisticated, inclusive, and mature. In this volume some of the leading scholars working in the field, as well as a number of those critical of Law and Economics, discuss the foundational issues from various perspectives: philosophical, moral, epistemological, methodological, psychological, political, legal, and social. The philosophical and methodological assumptions of the economic analysis of law are criticized and defended, alternatives are proposed, old and new applications are discussed. The book is ideal for a main or supplementary textbook in courses and seminars on legal theory, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, and (of course) Law and Economics.

Author : Cento G. Veljanovski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139464895

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Economic Principles of Law by Cento G. Veljanovski Pdf

Economic Principles of Law, first published in 2007, applies economics to the doctrines, rules and remedies of the common law. In plain English and using non-technical analysis, it offers an introduction and exposition of the 'economic approach' to law - one of the most exciting and vibrant fields of legal scholarship and applied economics. Beginning with a brief history of the field, it sets out the basic economic concepts useful to lawyers, and applies these to assess the core areas of the common law - property, contract, tort and crime - with particular emphasis on their doctrinal structure and remedies. This is done using leading cases drawn from the birthplace of the common law (England & Wales) and other common law jurisdictions. The book serves as a primer to the wider use of economics which has become increasingly important for law students, lawyers, legislators, regulators and those concerned with our legal system generally.

Author : Matthias P. Beck,Andrew E. Burke
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0631211632

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Law and Economics for Economists, Lawyers and Managers by Matthias P. Beck,Andrew E. Burke Pdf

This work illustrates how economic tools can be used to examine real legal decisions and assess alternative courses of action. It is a self-contained book, requiring no prior study in economics or law.