Law and economics : alternative economic approaches to legal and regulatory issues / / foreword by Warren J. Samuels ; editors, Margaret Oppenheimer and Nicholas Mercuro

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Disciplina: 340/.11; 340.11
• Soggetto topico: Law and economics
• Altri autori: MercuroNicholas OppenheimerMargaret <1947->
• Note generali: First published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword: Some Thoughts on the Study of Law and Economics and on the Role of Government; Part 1. Introduction: New Approaches to Law and Economics; 1. Law and Economics: Making the Case for a Broader Approach; 2. The Foundations of Socioeconomics and Its Relation to the Law; Part 2. Legal Issues Concerning Firms and Market Structure; 3. The Inadequacy of Competition Policies: A New Institutional Approach; 4. A Market Path to Liberation? Feminism, Economics, and Corporate Law ; 5. Alternative Economic Approaches to Antitrust EnforcementPart 3. Legal Issues Concerning Natural Resources, the Environment, and Land Use; 6. A Comparative Institutional Approach to Law and Economics: Theory and Applications-The Environment, Natural Resources, and Land Use; 7. Property and Politics in the Hudson Valley: Continuity and Change in the Corporate Form; 8. Prior Questions: Endogenous Property Rights in Economics and the Case of the Radio Spectrum; Part 4. Legal Issues Concerning Labor, Employment, and Unemployment ; 9. An Alternative Economic Analysis of the Regulation of Unions and Collective Bargaining10. Personalist Economics, Justice, and the Law: Applications to Labor, Product, and Credit Markets; 11. The Efficiency and Employment-Enhancing Effects of Social Welfare; 12. Alternative Economic Approaches to Analyzing Hours of Work Determination and Standards; 13. Efficient But Not Equitable: The Problem with Using the Law and Economics Paradigm to Interpret Sexual Harassment in the Workplace; Part 5. Other Legal Issues; 14. A Social Economics of Crime (Based on Kantian Ethics) ; 15. Economic Analysis of Tort Law: Austrian and Kantian Perspectives16. Institutional Change and Economic Growth in Spain Since Democratic Transition in 1978: Regulating Regional Self-Governance as a Key Factor; About the Editors and Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The economic analysis of legal and regulatory issues need not be limited to the neoclassical economic approach. The expert contributors to this work employ a variety of heterodox legal-economic theories to address a broad range of legal issues. They demonstrate how these various approaches can lead to very different conclusions concerning the role of the law and legal intervention in a wide array of contexts. The schools of thought and methodologies represented here include institutional economics, new institutional economics, socio-economics, social economics, behavioral economics, game theor
• Titolo autorizzato: Law and economics
• ISBN: 1-315-70296-7; 1-317-46643-8; 1-317-46642-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824118903321
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