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Books : Economic Analysis of Law (Casebook)In association with Amazon.com List Price: $73.00 Price: $39.49 You Save: $33.51 (46%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 349.73 EAN: 9781567065626 ISBN: 1567065627 Label: Aspen Law & Business Manufacturer: Aspen Law & Business Number Of Pages: 802 Publication Date: 1998-01 Publisher: Aspen Law & Business Studio: Aspen Law & Business Sales Rank: 395740 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Overrated simplistic reasoningFirst of all, the law and economics movement did not originate with Richard Posner. To his credit, he does reference the men who collectively formulated the modern utilitarian theory called "law and economics." Pay attention to the enormous amount of spelling errors and poor syntax in the first edition. The book seems like it was rushed to the presses in order to capitalize on something. Posner makes several invalid claims, the chief of which states that judge made law followed the ... Read More Rating: - Good economics concepts exposed... Although the economic theories used by Posner are for the most part sound, nevertheless, he lacks a more realistic approach to the problems presented in this book. For example, in the real world we CANNOT ignore transaction costs in all cases. Also, not all laypeople know the law as well as Mr. Posner. Overall, I do recommend reading this book, it will undoubtly stimulate your mind! Rating:  - University of Chicago "Must"Anyone interested in Economic Analysis of Law should have this book of "legendary" Posner Rating: - Monumental, brilliant . . . and ultimately unconvincingPrior to 1960, legal scholars invoked economics only in a handful of specialized contexts -- mostly antitrust and taxation. But it was not generally thought that economic science had much of anything useful to say about the law generally. Then, in the early 1960s, Guido Calabresi and Ronald Coase published a couple of papers that a lot of people found pretty darned interesting. Richard Posner was one of those people. Within about a decade thereafter, he had written a massive treatise ... Read More Rating: - a groundbreaking legal workthis is one of the most original and groundbreaking pieces of legal literature in history...Posner, one of the founders of the "chicago school" of law & economics applies the principles of ecomonics to analyze the entrire legal system from basic rules to underlying principles Browse for similar items by category:
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