Introduction: applying economic reasoning to the law -- Property -- Should body parts be salable? Moore v. the Regents of the University of California (1990) and the market for human tissue -- Can anyone own the sunlight? Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Inc. (1959) and the assignment and...

"The law-and-economics movement remains a dominant force in American private law, despite widespread recognition that many of its assumptions are implausible and that efficiency is not the law's only goal. This book adds to the debate by showing that many leading law-and-economics arguments fail...