The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.

Author/creator Farnsworth, Ward, 1967-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Descriptionxii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
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Subjects
Law--Methodology.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Law and economics.
Law--Psychological aspects.

Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and indexes.
LCCN 2006039091
ISBN9780226238340 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226238342 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226238357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226238350 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks K212 .F37 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold