The Economics of Legal Relationships
About the Book Series
Routledge are proud to be the publishers of the prestigious series The Economics of Legal Relationships, which is sponsored by Michigan State University College of Law, and which continues to be edited by Professors Nicholas Mercuro of Michigan State University College of Law and Michael D. Kaplowitz of the Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, USA. This series, with a fine back catalogue of books, is dedicated to publishing original scholarly contributions that systematically analyze legal-economic issues.
Law, Bubbles, and Financial Regulation
1st Edition
By Erik F. Gerding
May 06, 2016
Financial regulation can fail when it is needed the most. The dynamics of asset price bubbles weaken financial regulation just as financial markets begin to overheat and the risk of crisis spikes. At the same time, the failure of financial regulations adds further fuel to a bubble. This book ...
Empirical Legal Analysis: Assessing the performance of legal institutions
1st Edition
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By Yun-chien Chang
April 27, 2016
This innovative volume explores empirical legal issues around the world. While legal studies have traditionally been worked on and of letters and with a normative bent, in recent years quantitative methods have gained traction by offering a brand new perspective of understanding law. That is, legal...
The End of a Natural Monopoly: Deregulation and Competition in the Electric Power Industry
1st Edition
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By Daniel H. Cole, Peter Grossman
September 11, 2014
This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption that the electric power industry was a natural monopoly, recent times have seen a trend of deregulation followed by panicked re-regulation. This ...
Alternative Institutional Structures: Evolution and impact
1st Edition
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By Sandra Batie, Nicholas Mercuro
June 19, 2014
In the spring on 2006, a workshop was held at Michigan State University to honour the career of A. Allan Schmid and his writings about how institutions evolve and how alternative institutions, including property rights, shape political relationships and impact economic performance. This edited book...
Economics, Law and Individual Rights
1st Edition
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By Hugo M. Mialon, Paul H. Rubin
May 30, 2014
This is the first book to examine individual rights from an economic perspective, collecting together leading articles in this emerging area of interest and showing the vibrant and expanding scholarship that relates them. Areas covered include The implications of constitutional protections of ...
Law and Economics in Civil Law Countries
1st Edition
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By Bruno Deffains, Thierry Kirat
May 30, 2014
The aim of the book is to highlight the law and economics issues confronting civil law countries. The following questions are addressed in this volume: to what extent have the existing codes in civil law countries been designed to incorporate economic considerations? Can the modifications made to ...
The Fundamental Interrelationships between Government and Property
1st Edition
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By Nicholas Mercuro, Warren J. Samuels
May 16, 2014
This collection of 22 commissioned essays from scholars across numerous fields responded to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property? Contributing authors were asked to address this question in a...
Predatory Pricing in Antitrust Law and Economics: A Historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Nicola Giocoli
January 30, 2014
Can a price ever be too low? Can competition ever be ruinous? Questions like these have always accompanied American antitrust law. They testify to the difficulty of antitrust enforcement, of protecting competition without protecting competitors. As the business practice that most directly raises ...
Patent Policy: Legal-Economic Effects in a National and International Framework
1st Edition
By Pia Weiss
November 08, 2013
Intellectual property rights have become increasingly important for our modern economies in recent years. Although the entire patent system has a profound effect on the decision of firms of whether to conduct research and at which volume, patent law is the heart of the entire patent system. ...
Network Access, Regulation and Antitrust
1st Edition
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By Diana L. Moss
November 01, 2012
The rapid growth of network industries has generated much comment amongst academics and policy makers. This timely volume takes an interdisciplinary, case study-based approach to examining network issues and experiences in order to develop recommendations that can inform antitrust, regulatory and ...
Property Rights, Economics and the Environment
1st Edition
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By Michael D. Kaplowitz
June 28, 2012
This book explores how discussions of environmental policy increasingly require scholars and practitioners to integrate legal-economic analyses of property rights issues. An excellent array of contributors have come together for the first time to produce this magnificent book....
Property Rights Dynamics: A Law and Economics Perspective
1st Edition
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By Donatella Porrini, Giovanni Ramello
June 22, 2009
Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs and open source software are hotly debated and yet poorly understood. In particular, there is a great need for sound economic theorizing on such issues. There is also a need for a clear and concise exposition of the ...