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Features

• Best-selling text in the market, with a level and structure perfect for most undergraduate courses.
• Unique two-chapter sequence introduces each economic model in one chapter, and then applies the model in the next.
• Five key areas of the law are covered: property, contracts, torts, legal process, and crime.
• Clear writing style and extensive collection of applications (both in text and author's own text-related web site) allow for flexibility in level and teaching styles.
• Chapter 2 offers a brief review of microeconomics theory for students that need it.
• Chapter 3 is an introduction to the law and the legal process -- essential readying for those who have had no formal legal training.
• Chapters on substantive legal issues are arranged in pairs (with an exception of Chapter 10 on the legal process) with the first chapter of the pair providing a summary of the elements of that area of the law and the economic analysis, and the second chapter of the pair extending the core economy theory to a series of topics. Chapters 4 and 5 will focus on property law; Chapters 6 and 7, on contract law; Chapters 8 and 9, on tort law; and Chapters 11 and 12, on criminal law.

New To This Edition

• NEW! Expanded coverage of recent developments in law and social norms, efficiency vs. equity, private disputes vs. tax-and-transfer, and behavioral law and economics.

• NEW to Property Chapters! Materials on intellectual property and organizations-as-property.

• NEW to Contracts Chapters! Increased coverage of incentives and the agency problem.

• NEW to Torts Chapters! Incorporates new material on damages for incompensable losses.

• NEW to Crime and Punishment Chapters! Discussion on overcoming weakness of will and coordinating powers of criminal law.

• NEW! Empirical literature and data extensively updated throughout.

• NEW! Web Notes, in each chapter, closely link the text with relevant content on the Web Site.

• NEW! Improved and expanded end-of-chapter problems.

Table of Contents



 1. An Introduction to Law and Economics.


 2. A Review of Microeconomic Theory.


 3. An Introduction to Law and Legal Institutions.


 4. An Economic Theory of Property.


 5. Topics in the Economics of Property Law.


 6. An Economic Theory of Contract.


 7. Topics in the Economics of Contract Law.


 8. An Economic Theory of Tort Law.


 9. Topics in the Economics of Tort Liability.


10. An Economic Theory of the Legal Process.


11. An Economic Theory of Crime and Punishment.


12. Topics in the Economics of Crime and Punishment.

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• Law and Economics, 6/E
  Cooter & Ulen
  ©2012  |  Prentice Hall  |  Cloth; 576 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132540657  |  ISBN-13: 9780132540650
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  Law and economics has become a central course in U.S. legal education and for students majoring in topics like economics, political science, and philosophy. Cooter and Ulen provide a clear introduction to economic analysis and its application to legal rules and institutions that is accessible to any student who has taken principles of microeconomics.
  
  The book’s structure is flexible, beginning with an introductory overview of economic tools followed by paired chapters in five core areas of law: property, contracts, torts, legal process, and crime. Students leave the course understanding how microeconomic theory can be used to critically evaluate law and public policy.

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• Law and Economics, 5/E
  Cooter & Ulen
  ©2008  |  Prentice Hall  |  Paper; 592 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0321336348  |  ISBN-13: 9780321336347
  Suggested retail price: $206.67  Net price: $155.00  (What's this?)Brief Description  | 

  

  Law and economics has become a central course in U.S. legal education and for students majoring in topics like economics, political science, and philosophy. With the Fifth Edition of their best-selling text, Cooter and Ulen provide a clear introduction to economic analysis and its application to legal rules and institutions that is accessible to any student who has taken principles of microeconomics.
  
  The book’s structure is flexible, beginning with an introductory overview of economic tools followed by paired chapters in five core areas of law: property, contracts, torts, legal process, and crime. Students leave the course understanding how microeconomic theory can be used to critically evaluate law and public policy.
  

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