The legal analyst :
Farnsworth, Ward, 1967-
The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xii, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ex ante and ex post -- The idea of efficiency -- Thinking at the margin -- The single owner -- The least cost avoider -- Administrative cost -- Rents -- The coase theorem -- Agency (with Eric Posner) -- The prisoner's dilemma -- Public goods -- The stag hunt -- Chicken -- Cascades -- Voting paradoxes -- Suppressed markets (with Saul Levmore) -- Rules and standards -- Slippery slopes (with Eugene Volokh) -- Acoustic separation -- Property rules and liability rules -- Baselines -- Willingness to pay and willingness to accept : the endowment effect and kindred ideas -- Hindsight bias -- Framing effects -- Anchoring -- Self-serving bias, with a note on attribution error -- Presumptions -- Standards of proof -- The product rule -- The base rate -- Value and markets.
9780226238340 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226238342 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226238357 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226238350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006039091
Law--Methodology.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Law and economics.
Law--Psychological aspects.
K212 / .F37 2007
340/.11
The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - xii, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ex ante and ex post -- The idea of efficiency -- Thinking at the margin -- The single owner -- The least cost avoider -- Administrative cost -- Rents -- The coase theorem -- Agency (with Eric Posner) -- The prisoner's dilemma -- Public goods -- The stag hunt -- Chicken -- Cascades -- Voting paradoxes -- Suppressed markets (with Saul Levmore) -- Rules and standards -- Slippery slopes (with Eugene Volokh) -- Acoustic separation -- Property rules and liability rules -- Baselines -- Willingness to pay and willingness to accept : the endowment effect and kindred ideas -- Hindsight bias -- Framing effects -- Anchoring -- Self-serving bias, with a note on attribution error -- Presumptions -- Standards of proof -- The product rule -- The base rate -- Value and markets.
9780226238340 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226238342 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226238357 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226238350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006039091
Law--Methodology.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Law and economics.
Law--Psychological aspects.
K212 / .F37 2007
340/.11