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Author Madjd-Sadjadi, Zagros, 1968-, author.

Title The economics of civil and common law / Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi.

Publication Info. New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2016.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (viii, 199 pages)
text rdacontent
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Series Economics collection, 2163-7628
Economics collection. 2163-7628
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
Contents 1. The interaction of law and economics -- 2. Property rights -- 3. Contracts -- 4. Torts -- 5. Organization of the firm and competition law -- 6. Other laws -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary Law is supposed to encourage innovation, morality, and conformity with societal expectations, yet it may provide perverse incentives causing individuals, or even the State, to act in discordant, inefficient, and even immoral ways. It will explore the inefficiencies that are created that serve to deny individuals work and shelter in a haphazard and capricious manner. It will examine property rights, including eminent domain that lets the State take property away with seemingly arbitrary compensation to the owner. Individuals must understand both civil law, codified by statutes, and common law, enshrined in precedential judicial decisions, and why the common law tends to better reduce transactions costs and thus avoid courts entirely. This book is written for economists and noneconomists and has an extensive glossary of economic, political, and legal terms. Two items that are not formally treated in other economics of law textbooks are the legal organization of businesses and tax law from an economics perspective.
Note Title from PDF title page (viewed on November 30, 2015).
Subject Law and economics.
Law -- Economic aspects.
Indexed Term adverse selection
antitrust law
civil law
climate change
Coase theorem
common law
contracts
corporate personhood
deadweight loss
discrimination
externalities
family law
free trade
information asymmetry
Laffer curve
moral hazard
patents
Pigouvian tax
precedent
price discrimination
principal-agent program
property rights
Supreme Court decisions
tax incidence
Theory of the Firm
torts
transaction costs
unconscionability
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781606495841
ISBN 9781606495841 paperback
9781606495858 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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