1st Edition
Law and Economics Alternative Economic Approaches to Legal and Regulatory Issues
480 Pages
by
Routledge
480 Pages
by
Routledge
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The economic analysis of legal and regulatory issues need not be limited to the neoclassical economic approach. The expert contributors to this work employ a variety of heterodox legal-economic theories to address a broad range of legal issues. They demonstrate how these various approaches can lead to very different conclusions concerning the role of the law and legal intervention in a wide array... Read more
Preface, Warren J. Samuels; Part I. Introduction: New Approaches to Law and Economics; 1. Law and Economics: Making the Case for a Broader Approach, Margaret Oppenheimer and Nicholas Mercuro; 2. The Foundations of Socio-Economics and Its Relation to Law, Amitai Etzioni; Part II. Legal Issues Concerning Firms and Market Structure; 3. The Inadequacy of Competition Policies: A New-Institutional Approach, Claude Menard; 4. The Market Path to Liberation: Feminism, Economics, and Corporate Law, Kellye Y. Testy; 5. Alternative Economic Approaches to Antitrust Enforcement, Patrick J. Welch and Thomas L. Greaney; Part IV. Legal Issues Concerning Natural Resources, the Environment, and Land Use; 6. A Comparative Institutional Approach to Law and Economics: Theory and Environmental, Natural Resource, and Land-Use Applications, Nicholas Mercuro; 7. Property and Politics in the Hudson Valley: Continuity and Change in the Corporate Form, Ann Davis; 8. Prior Questions: Endogenous Property Rights in Economics and the Case of the Radio Spectrum, Elizabeth Kruse; Part V. Legal Issues Concerning Labor, Employment, and Unemployment; 9. An Alternative Economic Analysis of the Regulation of Unions and Collective Bargaining, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt; 10. Personalist Economics, Justice, and the Law: Applications to Labor, Product and Credit Markets, Edward J. O'Boyle; 11. The Efficiency and Employment Enhancing Effects of Social Welfare, Morris Altman; 12. Alternative Economic Approaches to Analyzing Hours of Work Determination and Standards, Morris Altman and Lonnie Golden; 13. Efficient but Not Equitable: The Problem with Using the Law and Economics Paradigm to Interpret Sexual Harassment in the Work Place, Toni Lester; Part VI. Other Legal Issues; 14. A Social Economics of Crime (Based on Kantian Ethics), Mark D. White; 15. Economic Analysis of Tort Law: Austrian and Kantian Perspectives, Edward Stringham and Mark D. White; 16. Institutional Change and Economic Growth in Spain Since Democratic Transition in 1978: Regulating Multilevel Governance as a Key Factor, Fernando Tobos
Biography
Margaret Oppenheimer, Nicholas Mercuro
