1st Edition
Property Rights Dynamics A Law and Economics Perspective
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.
Introduction 1: Property Rights Dynamics: Current Issues in Law and Economics Donatella Porrini and Giovanni B. Ramello Part I: Property Rights and Law and Economic Theory: Justifications and Main Issues 2: The Fall and Rise of Functional Property Francesco Parisi 3: Property Rights: A Comparative Law and Economics Perspective in the Global Era Ugo Mattei and Andrea Pradir 4: Entropy and the Asymmetric Coase Theorem Francesco Parisi 5: On Incomplete Property: A Missing Point Perspective in Law and Economics ? Antonio Nicita 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 Michele Boldrin and David Leviner 7: The Uninvited Guest: Patents on Wall Street Robert Merges 8: Property Rights in Human Tissue Julia Mahoney and Pamela Clark Part III: Shadows and Lights: Critical Issues, Conflicting Cases and Alternative Paradigms 9: The Ongoing Copyright as an Essential Facility Saga Paul Torremans 10: The Treatment of Marital Assets: Common-Law Property Rights and EU Harmonization Antony Dnes 11: Intellectual Property Rights and Judge-Made Law: An Economic Analysis of the Production and Diffusion of Precedent Sophie Harnay and Alain Marciano 12: Failing Property Rights: The Problem of Sleeping Owners in the City: A Preliminary Analysis of One Aspect of the German Unification Treaty Jürgen Backhaus
Biography
Donatella Porrini