Property Rights Dynamics

Description

Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs and open source software are hotly debated and yet poorly understood. In particular, there is a great need for sound economic theorizing on such issues.

There is also a need for a clear and concise exposition of the state-of-the-art of the economics of property rights. This book fulfils these various needs.

Contents

Introduction 1: Property Rights Dynamics: Current Issues in Law and Economics Part I: Property Rights and Law and Economic Theory: Justifications and Main Issues 2: The Fall and Rise of Functional Property 3: Property Rights: A Comparative Law and Economics Perspective in the Global Era 4: Entropy and the Asymmetric Coase Theorem 5: On Incomplete Property: A Missing Point Perspective in Law and Economics? Part II: An Old Bottle for New Wines? The Extensions of Property Rights 6: Intellectual Property and the Efficient Allocation of Social Surplus from Innovations 7: The Uninvited Guest: Patents on Wall Street 8: Property Rights in Human Tissue Part III: Shadows and Lights: Critical Issues, Conflicting Cases and Alternative Paradigms 9: The Ongoing Copyright as an Essential Facility Saga 10: The Treatment of Marital Assets: Common-Law Property Rights and EU Harmonization 11: Intellectual Property Rights and Judge-Made Law: An Economic Analysis of the Production and Diffusion of Precedent 12: Failing Property Rights: The Problem of Sleeping Owners in the City: A Preliminary Analysis of One Aspect of the German Unification Treaty

Related Subjects

1. Industrial Economics
2. Business Economics
3. Banking & Finance Law