The Economics of Justice (Paper)

An Introduction to the Economics of Nonmarket Behavior 1(12) The Plan of the Book 6(7) I JUSTICE AND EFFICIENCY Blackstone and Bentham 13(35) Blackstone's Commentaries 13(18) Bentham's Antipathy to Blackstone 31(8) Blackstone and Bentham Compared 39(9) Utilitarianism, Economics, and Social Theory 48(40) Some Problems of Utilitarianism 51(9) Wealth Maximization as an Ethical Concept 60(28) The Ethical and Political Basis of Wealth Maximization 88(31) The Consensual Basis of Efficiency 88(15) Implications for the Positive Economic Analysis of Law 103(4) Dworkin's Critique of Wealth Maximization 107(12) II THE ORIGINS OF JUSTICE The Homeric Version of the Minimal State 119(27) A Taxonomy of Limited Government 120(3) Government and Political Values in Homer 123(12) The Homeric Social Order 135(5) Homeric Individualism 140(2) Some Modern Parallels 142(1) The Theory of the State 143(3) A Theory of Primitive Society 146(28) The Costs of Information 146(4) A Model of Primitive Society 150(18) Other Primitive Adaptations to High Information Costs 168(6) The Economic Theory of Primitive Law 174(33) The Legal Process 174(5) Property 179(3) Contracts 182(2) Family Law 184(8) The System of Strict Liability in Tort 192(11) Criminal Law 203(4) Retribution and Related Concepts of Punishment 207(24) From Revenge to Retribution, and Beyond 208(9) Pollution: Retribution against Neighbors and Descendants 217(7) Guilt versus Responsibility 224(7) III PRIVACY AND RELATED INTERESTS Privacy as Secrecy 231(37) The Economics of Private Information and Communications 232(22) The Tort Law of Privacy 254(14) A Broader View of Privacy 268(42) The Etymology of Privacy: Seclusion and Autonomy 268(8) Evidence for the Economic Theory of Privacy 276(6) The Common Law and the Economic Theory of Privacy 282(5) Defamation and Disparagement 287(12) The Statutory Privacy Movement 299(11) The Privacy Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court 310(41) Privacy Cases before Griswold 311(12) The Griswold Decision 323(6) Privacy in the Supreme Court since Griswold 329(16) Conclusion 345(6) IV THE SUPREME COURT AND DISCRIMINATION The Law and Economics of Discrimination 351(13) The DeFunis Case and Reverse Discrimination 364(23) The Reasonableness of Reverse Discrimination 365(10) The Constitutional Issue 375(12) Bakke, Weber, and Beyond 387(22) Bakke 387(17) Weber 404(5) Index 409