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Posner, Richard A.

Economic analysis of law / Richard A. Posner - 6th ed. - New York : Aspen Publishers, 2003. - xx, 747 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

1. The nature of economic reasoning;
2. The economic approach to law;
3. Property;
4. Contract rights and remedies;
5. Family law and sex law;
6. Tort law;
7. Criminal law;
8. The common law, legal history and jurisprudence;
9. The theory of monopoly;
10. The antitrust laws;
11. The regulation of the employment relation;
12. Public utility and common carrier regulation;
13. The choice between regulation and common law;
14. Corporations, secured and unsecured financing, bankruptcy;
15. Financial markets;
16. Income inequalities, distributive justice, and poverty;
17. Taxation;
18. The transmission of wealth at death;
19. The market, the adversary system, and the legislative process as methods of resource allocation;
20. The process of legal rule-making;
21. Civil and criminal procedure;
22. Evidence;
23. Law enforcement and the administrative process;
24. The nature and functions of the constitution;
25. Economic due process;
26. The economics of federalism;
27. Racial discrimination;
28. The protection of free markets in ideas and religion;
29. Searches, seizures, and interrogations.

ISBN: 9780735534742

LCCN: 2002028047

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Law and economics.

Dewey Class. No.: 330 POS