LEADER 04816nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910455381903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03656-5 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674036567 035 $a(CKB)1000000000787140 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246103 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11192179 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246103 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10187997 035 $a(PQKB)11475634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300197 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300197 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314204 035 $a(OCoLC)923109950 035 $a(DE-B1597)574631 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674036567 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000787140 100 $a19941004d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSimple rules for a complex world$b[electronic resource] /$fRichard A. Epstein 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d1995 215 $axiv, 361 p 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-80820-7 311 $a0-674-80821-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: Too Many Lawyers, Too Much Law -- $tI. Cutting through Complexity -- $t1. The Virtues of Simplicity -- $t2. The Enemies of Simplicity -- $tII. The Simple Rules -- $t3. Autonomy and Property -- $t4. Contract -- $t5. Torts -- $t6. Necessity, Coordination, and Just Compensation -- $t7. Take and Pay -- $tIII. The Rules in Action -- $t8. Contracting for Labor -- $t9. Employment Discrimination and Comparable Worth -- $t10. Professional Liability for Financial Loss -- $t11. The Origins of Product Liability Law -- $t12. The Contemporary Product Liability Scene -- $t13. The Internal Life of the Corporation -- $t14. The Corporation and the World -- $t15. Environmental Protection and Private Property -- $tConclusion: The Challenges to Simple Rules -- $tNotes -- $tIndex of Statutes -- $tIndex of Cases -- $tGeneral Index 330 $aToo many laws, too many lawyers--that's the necessary consequence of a complex society, or so conventional wisdom has it. Countless pundits insist that any call for legal simplification smacks of nostalgia, sentimentality, or naiveté. But the conventional view, the noted legal scholar Richard Epstein tells us, has it exactly backward. The richer texture of modern society allows for more individual freedom and choice. And it allows us to organize a comprehensive legal order capable of meeting the technological and social challenges of today on the basis of just six core principles. In this book, Epstein demonstrates how. The first four rules, which regulate human interactions in ordinary social life, concern the autonomy of the individual, property, contract, and tort. Taken together these rules establish and protect consistent entitlements over all resources, both human and natural. These rules are backstopped by two more rules that permit forced exchanges on payment of just compensation when private or public necessity so dictates. Epstein then uses these six building blocks to clarify many intractable problems in the modern legal landscape. His discussion of employment contracts explains the hidden virtues of contracts at will and exposes the crippling weaknesses of laws regarding collective bargaining, unjust dismissal, employer discrimination, and comparable worth. And his analysis shows how laws governing liability for products and professional services, corporate transactions, and environmental protection have generated unnecessary social strife and economic dislocation by violating these basic principles.Simple Rules for a Complex World offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern regulatory state. At a time when most Americans have come to distrust and fear government at all levels, Epstein shows how a consistent application of economic and political theory allows us to steer a middle path between too much and too little. 606 $aLaw$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAdversary system (Law)$zUnited States 606 $aLawyers$zUnited States 606 $aSocial justice 606 $aSimplicity (Philosophy) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLaw$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aAdversary system (Law) 615 0$aLawyers 615 0$aSocial justice. 615 0$aSimplicity (Philosophy) 676 $a340/.1 700 $aEpstein$b Richard Allen$f1943-$0768194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455381903321 996 $aSimple rules for a complex world$91989452 997 $aUNINA