Economics for lawyers /

"Economics for Lawyers provides the essential tools to understand the economic basis of law. Through rigorous analysis illustrated with simple graphs and a wide range of legal examples, Richard Ippolito focuses on a few key concepts and shows how they play out in numerous applications." &q...

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Päätekijä: Ippolito, Richard A.
Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • Ch. 1. Finding the optimal use of a limited income
  • Ch. 2. Demand curves and consumer surplus
  • Ch. 3. Supply curves and the flow of resources : also sunk cost, opportunity cost, and transactions cost
  • Ch. 4. Using demand and supply curves to evaluate policy
  • Ch. 5. The economics of monopoly
  • Ch. 6. Public goods and common resources : toward understanding the economics of property rights
  • Ch. 7. Externalities : the Coase theorem
  • Ch. 8. Pollution in the workplace : contract or externality? : an introduction to the rules of law
  • Ch. 9. Lemons markets and adverse selection : signals, bonds, reputation, and tie-ins as solutions
  • Ch. 10. Sorting as a solution to asymmetric information : coaxing market participants to divulge valuable information
  • Ch. 11. Moral hazard and agency problems : when mispricing affects behavior
  • Ch. 12. Game theory and related issues : strategic thinking when players are few and information is poor.