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Economics for Lawyers / Richard A. Ippolito.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (456 p.) : 94 line illus. 29 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691121772
  • 9781400829224
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330/.024/34
LOC classification:
  • K487.E3 I67 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Finding the Optimal Use of a Limited Income -- Chapter 2. Demand Curves and Consumer Surplus -- Chapter 3. Supply Curves and the Flow of Resources -- Chapter 4. Using Demand and Supply Curves to Evaluate Policy -- Chapter 5. The Economics of Monopoly -- Chapter 6. Public Goods and Common Resources -- Chapter 7. Externalities -- Chapter 8. Pollution in the Workplace: Contract or Externality? -- Chapter 9. Lemons Markets and Adverse Selection -- Chapter 10. Sorting as a Solution to Asymmetric Information -- Chapter 11. Moral Hazard and Agency Problems -- Chapter 12. Game Theory and Related Issues -- Index
Summary: Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. Economics for Lawyers provides the essential tools to understand the economic basis of law. Through rigorous analysis illustrated with simple graphs and a wide range of legal examples, Richard Ippolito focuses on a few key concepts and shows how they play out in numerous applications. There are everyday problems: What is the social cost of legislation enforcing below-market prices, minimum wages, milk regulation, and noncompetitive pricing? Why are matinee movies cheaper than nighttime showings? And then there are broader questions: What is the patent system's role in the market for intellectual property rights? How does one think about externalities like airport noise? Is the free market, a regulated solution, or tort law the best way to deliver the "efficient amount of harm" in the workplace? What is the best approach to the question of economic compensation due to a person falsely imprisoned? Along the way, readers learn what economists mean when they talk about sorting, signaling, reputational assets, lemons markets, moral hazard, and adverse selection. They will learn a new vocabulary and a whole new way of thinking about the world they live in, and will be more productive in their professions.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Finding the Optimal Use of a Limited Income -- Chapter 2. Demand Curves and Consumer Surplus -- Chapter 3. Supply Curves and the Flow of Resources -- Chapter 4. Using Demand and Supply Curves to Evaluate Policy -- Chapter 5. The Economics of Monopoly -- Chapter 6. Public Goods and Common Resources -- Chapter 7. Externalities -- Chapter 8. Pollution in the Workplace: Contract or Externality? -- Chapter 9. Lemons Markets and Adverse Selection -- Chapter 10. Sorting as a Solution to Asymmetric Information -- Chapter 11. Moral Hazard and Agency Problems -- Chapter 12. Game Theory and Related Issues -- Index

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Whether dealing with contracts, tort actions, or government regulations, lawyers are more likely to be successful if they are conversant in economics. Economics for Lawyers provides the essential tools to understand the economic basis of law. Through rigorous analysis illustrated with simple graphs and a wide range of legal examples, Richard Ippolito focuses on a few key concepts and shows how they play out in numerous applications. There are everyday problems: What is the social cost of legislation enforcing below-market prices, minimum wages, milk regulation, and noncompetitive pricing? Why are matinee movies cheaper than nighttime showings? And then there are broader questions: What is the patent system's role in the market for intellectual property rights? How does one think about externalities like airport noise? Is the free market, a regulated solution, or tort law the best way to deliver the "efficient amount of harm" in the workplace? What is the best approach to the question of economic compensation due to a person falsely imprisoned? Along the way, readers learn what economists mean when they talk about sorting, signaling, reputational assets, lemons markets, moral hazard, and adverse selection. They will learn a new vocabulary and a whole new way of thinking about the world they live in, and will be more productive in their professions.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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