This book contains refereed articles on: contrasting relational conceptions of the individual in recent economics; the development of Adam Smith's style of lecturing; a comparison of problems encountered in the historian's work as editor, based upon editing Harrod's papers and Haberler's...

Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter in this book examines in depth a topic in law and economics. John Connor begins by describing and evaluating the results of his extensive survey of reports of cartel overcharges. Dennis Weisman models the price effects of mergers that not...

Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context rather than abstract terminology in instructions. This volume examines the methodology of field...

Introduction to benefit-cost volume / Richard O. Zerbe -- Best practice standards for regulatory benefit-cost analysis / Daniel H. Cole -- Welcome to the data-poor real world : incorporating benefit-cost principles into environmental policymaking / Mark L. Plummer -- Agricultural subsidies under...

Statistical approaches to assessing charges of environmental racism and classism against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Adam Karp -- Bars to the payment of prejudgment interest : the supreme court and the federal employers' liability act / David E. Ault, Gilbert L. Rutman -- Of...

Wesley Clair Mitchell on eugenics : a note / Luca Fiorito, Tiziana Foresti -- The final triumph of Adam Smith? / Udayan Roy -- Backhaus and Drechsler's Friedrich Nietzsche : Did Nietzsche say anything to economists or about economics? / John Linarelli -- Le Gall's A history of econometrics in...

Since 1979 Research in Law and Economics has been presenting original research that explores the extent to which the constraints of law explain economic behavior and the role of economics in forming the law. The first chapter in this volume proposes three different definitions for market power...

The collection includes both refereed articles and review essays of recently published books in the history of economic thought and methodology. The articles highlight the work of founding editor Warren J. Samuels, American economists role in the creation of federal trade acts, and Islamic...