Law's Order - What Economics Has to do with Law & Why It Matters : What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters

Introduction 3(5) What Does Economics Have to Do with Law? 8(10) Efficiency and All That 18(10) What's Wrong with the World, Part 1 28(8) What's Wrong with the World, Part 2 36(11) Defining and Enforcing Rights: Property, Liability, and Spaghetti 47(16) Of Burning Houses and Exploding Coke Bottles 63(11) Coin Flips and Car Crashes: Ex Post versus Ex Ante 74(10) Games, Bargains, Bluffs, and Other Really Hard Stuff 84(11) As Much as Your Life Is Worth 95(17) Intermizzo. The American Legal System in Brief 103(9) Mine, Thine, and Ours: The Economics of Property Law 112(16) Clouds and Barbed Wire: The Economics of Intellectual Property 128(17) The Economics of Contract 145(26) Marriage, Sex, and Babies 171(18) Tort Law 189(34) Criminal Law 223(21) Antitrust 244(19) Other Paths 263(18) The Crime/Tort Puzzle 281(16) Is the Common Law Efficient? 297(12) Epilogue 309(10) Index 319