TY  - BOOK
AU  - Posner,Richard A.
ED  - Aspen Publishers.
TI  - Economic analysis of law
T2  - Aspen casebook series
SN  - 9780735594425 (hbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - K 487 .E3 P67 2011
U1  - 349.73 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Aspen Publishers
KW  - Law and economics
KW  - Local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Part I. Law and economics: an introduction. The nature of economic reasoning ; The economic approach to law -- Part II. The common law. Property ; Contract rights and remedies ; Family law and sex law ; Tort law ; Criminal law ; The common law, legal history, and jurisprudence -- Part III. Public regulation of the market. The theory of monopoly ; The antitrust laws ; The regulation of the employment relation ; Public utility and common carrier regulation ; The choice between regulation and common law -- Part IV. The law of business organizations and financial markets. Corporations, secured and unsecured financing, bankruptcy ; Financial markets -- Part V. Law and the distribution of income and wealth. Income inequalities, distributive justice, and poverty ; Taxation ; The transmission of wealth at death -- Part VI. The legal process. The market, the adversary system, and the legislative process as methods of resource allocation ; The process of legal rulemaking ; Civil and criminal procedure ; Evidence ; Law enforcement and the administrative process -- Part VII. The Constitution and the federal system. The nature and functions of the Constitution ; Economic due process ; The economics of federalism ; Racial discrimination ; The protection of free markets in ideas and religion ; Searches, seizures, and interrogations
ER  -