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Issues in Law and Economics
Harold Winter
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Description for Issues in Law and Economics
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: KC; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With Issues in Law and Economics, Harold Winter takes readers through these and other recent and controversial questions. In an accessible and engaging manner, Winter shows these legal issues can be reexamined through the use of economic analysis. Using real-world cases to highlight issues, Winter offers step-by-step analysis, guiding readers through the identification of the trade-offs involved in each issue and assessing the economic evidence from scholarly research ... Read more
Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With Issues in Law and Economics, Harold Winter takes readers through these and other recent and controversial questions. In an accessible and engaging manner, Winter shows these legal issues can be reexamined through the use of economic analysis. Using real-world cases to highlight issues, Winter offers step-by-step analysis, guiding readers through the identification of the trade-offs involved in each issue and assessing the economic evidence from scholarly research ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226249629
SKU
V9780226249629
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Ref
99-50
About Harold Winter
Harold Winter is professor of economics at Ohio University. He is the author of several books, including Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Issues in Law and Economics
With nary a graph or algebraic expression, Winter does an excellent job of explaining complex issues and technical material in an admirably clear and accessible way, using cases to motivate topics across the major common law fields
torts, contracts, property, and crime
and showing how economists think about legal issues by boiling them down to fundamental economic problems.
Thomas J. Miceli, ... Read more
torts, contracts, property, and crime
and showing how economists think about legal issues by boiling them down to fundamental economic problems.
Thomas J. Miceli, ... Read more