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Featuring a broad range of contributors, current data, and case studies, this book explores how the discussion of environmental policy requires the integration of legal-economic analysis of property rights issues.

This book is the outcome of a workshop at Michigan State University on the career of A. Allan Schmid offering a collection of original essays that explore several approaches to understanding the impact of alternative legal-economic institutions.

Provides insights on the foundations and methods, achievements and challenges of Law and Economics, and explores whether the field can be deemed a success as an interdisciplinary endeavour.

This book collects original contributions, from both economists and lawyers, related to the new European Union Directives just approved in 2014 by the EU Parliament.

This collection of 22 commissioned essays from scholars across numerous fields responded to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property?

This new volume will examine the law and economics of predatory pricing, which is one of the most serious, and most debatable, antitrust violations. The analysis will cover both US and European antitrust law, assessing it through the viewpoint and method of the history of economic thought.

There is a tension in today's public policy governing network industries and difference of opinion as to whether current antitrust laws are suitable for dealing with the novel and rapidly changing issues raised by these industries.

This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation.

Highlighting the law and economics issues confronting civil law countries, this title also explores the relationship between law and economics in the context of both the legislature and the courts.

This collection of 22 essays responds to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property? Authors were asked to address this question in a positive analysis and that their essay penetrate to the deepest levels of property-government organization.

Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs, and open source software are debated and yet poorly understood. This book states that there is a need for sound economic theorizing on such issues. It offers a concise exposition of the economics of property rights.

Why has Law and Economics movement become successful? What is the status of the Chicago School? What are the alternative theories and how much influence do they exert? What can be considered mainstream? What are the norms and values underlying this impressive body of research? This book explores these issues, amongst others.

Featuring a broad range of contributors, current data, and case studies, this book explores how the discussion of environmental policy requires the integration of legal-economic analysis of property rights issues.

Presents a systematic overview of models that are dedicated to patent policy. This book describes various aspects that are associated with patents, including innovation, patent policy instruments, licensing, and the tension between patent policy and competition policy.

Offers a collection of essays that explores several approaches to understanding the impact of alternative legal-economic institutions. This collection investigates questions such as: What are the similarities and differences among the various strands and approaches? And do different analytical problems require different approaches?

Examining individual rights from an economic perspective, this book includes: the implications of constitutional protections of individual rights and freedoms, including freedom of speech and of the press; the right to bear arms; the right against unreasonable searches; the right against self-incrimination; and, the right to trial by jury.

Enhances the economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the boundaries of neoclassical economics to an interdisciplinary approach based on accounting and law as well as economics itself. This title starts with a synthesis and a critique of the state of the different economic theories of the firm.

There is a tension in today's public policy governing network industries and difference of opinion as to whether current antitrust laws are suitable for dealing with the novel and rapidly changing issues raised by these industries.

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 the gap between law and economics.

This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation.

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.