In the spring on 2006, a workshop was held at Michigan State University to honour the career of A. Allan Schmid and his writings about…

This is the first book to examine individual rights from an economic perspective, collecting together leading articles in this emerging area of interest and showing…

The book enhances current economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the narrow boundaries of neoclassical economics to an…

Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought…

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,…

The rapid growth of network industries has generated much comment amongst academics and policy makers. This timely volume takes an interdisciplinary, case study-based approach to…

Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive, eminently readable book designed to focus thinking in the area of contract law. This book bridges…

This book explores how discussions of environmental policy increasingly require scholars and practitioners to integrate legal-economic analyses of property rights issues. An excellent array of…

The aim of the book is to highlight the law and economics issues confronting civil law countries. The following questions are addressed in this volume:…

This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption that the electric power industry…