Mercuro, Nicholas.

Economics and the law : from Posner to post-modernism / Nicholas Mercuro and Steven G. Medema. - 2nd ed. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006. - x, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface ix Chapter 1: The Jurisprudential Niche of Law and Economics 1 Appendix A: The Theory of Market Failure 60 Appendix B: Efficiency Concepts in Law and Economics 68 Chapter 2: Chicago Law and Economics 94 Chapter 3: Public Choice Theory 156 Chapter 4: Institutional Law and Economics 208 Chapter 5: The New Institutional Economics 241 Chapter 6: Branching Out: New Haven, Modern Civic Republican, and Austrian Approaches 284 Chapter 7: Social Norms and Law and Economics 306 Bibliography 343 Index 375

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