Handbook of Law and Economics

A. Mitchell Polinsky, Steven Shavell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

886 Seiten

2007
North-Holland (Verlag)
978-0-444-51235-2 (ISBN)

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Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. This title offers a survey of the state of the field.

Law can be viewed as a body of rules and legal sanctions that channel behavior in socially desirable directions — for example, by encouraging individuals to take proper precautions to prevent accidents or by discouraging competitors from colluding to raise prices. The incentives created by the legal system are thus a natural subject of study by economists. Moreover, given the importance of law to the welfare of societies, the economic analysis of law merits prominent treatment as a subdiscipline of economics. Our hope is that this two volume Handbook will foster the study of the legal system by economists.

1. Contract Law
2. Liability for Accidents
3. Property Law
4. Litigation
5. Empirical Study of the Civil Justice System
6. Public Enforcement of Law
7. Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment
8. Environmental Law
9. Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks
10. Taxation
11. International Law

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.11.2007
Reihe/Serie	Handbook of Law and Economics
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1737 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-444-51235-7 / 0444512357
ISBN-13	978-0-444-51235-2 / 9780444512352
Zustand	Neuware