Law's Order

图书标准信息

• 作者 David D. Friedman（大卫·弗莱德曼） 著
• 出版社 Princeton University Press
• 出版时间 2001-10
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780691090092
• 定价 284.40元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 16开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 344页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

Whatdoeseconomicshavetodowithlaw?Supposelegislatorsproposethatarmedrobbersreceivelifeimprisonment.Editorialpagesapplaudthemforgettingtoughoncrime.Constitutionallawyersraisetheissueofcruelandunusualpunishment.Legalphilosophersponderquestionsofjustness.Aneconomist,ontheotherhand,observesthatmakingthepunishmentforarmedrobberythesameasthatformurderencouragesmuggerstokilltheirvictims.Thisisthecut-to-the-chasequalitythatmakeseconomicsnotonlyapplicabletotheinterpretationoflaw,butbeneficialtoitscrafting.Drawingonnumerouscommonsenseexamples,inadditiontohisextensiveknowledgeofChicago-schooleconomics,DavidD.Friedmanoffersaspiriteddefenseoftheeconomicviewoflaw.Heclarifiestherelationshipbetweenlawandeconomicsinclearprosethatisfriendlytostudents,lawyers,andlayreaderswithoutsacrificingtheintellectualheftoftheideaspresented.Friedmanistheidealspokesmanforanapproachtolawthatiscontroversialnotbecauseitoverturnstheconclusionsoftraditionallegalscholars-itcanbeusedtoadvocateasurprisingvarietyofpoliticalpositions,includingbothsidesofsuchcontentiousissuesascapitalpunishment-butratherbecauseitalterstheverynatureoftheirarguments.Forexample,ratherthanviewinglandlord-tenantlawasamatteroffavoringlandlordsovertenantsortenantsoverlandlords,aneconomicanalysismakesclearthatabadlawinjuresbothgroupsinthelongrun.Andunliketraditionallegaldoctrines,economicsoffersaunifiedapproach,onethatappliesthesamefundamentalideastounderstandandevaluatelegalrulesincontract,property,crime,tort,andeveryothercategoryoflaw,whetherinmoderndayAmericaorothertimesandplaces-andsystemsofnon-legalrules,suchassocialnorms,aswell.Thisbookwillundoubtedlyraisethediscourseontheincreasinglyimportanttopicoftheeconomicsoflaw,givingbothsupportersandcriticsoftheeconomicperspectiveaplacetoorganizetheirideas.

【作者简介】

David D. Friedman is Professor of Law at the University of Santa Clara School of Law. He holds a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago and is the author of, among other books, Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life and The Machinery of Freedom.

【目录】

Introduction

1. What Does Economics Have to Do with Law?

2. Efficiency and All That

3. What's Wrong with the World, Part 1

4. What's Wrong with the World, Part 2

5. Defining and Enforcing Rights: Property, Liability, and Spaghetti

6. Of Burning Houses and Exploding Coke Bottles

7. Coin Flips and Car Crashes: Ex Post versus Ex Ante

8. Games, Bargains, Bluffs, and Other Really Hard Stuff

9. As Much as Your Life Is Worth Intermezzo. The American Legal System in Brief

10. Mine, Thine, and Ours: The Economics of Property La~

11. Clouds and Barbed Wire: The Economics of Intellectual Property

12. The Economics of Contract

13. Marriage, Sex, and Babies

14. Tort Law

15. Criminal Law

16. Antitrust

17. Other Paths

18. The Crime/Tort Puzzle

19. Is the Common Law Efficient?

Epilogue

Index