Kaplow, Louis; Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 3, (pp. 1661-1784). 2002
This is a survey of economic analysis of law, that is, of the emerging field under which the standard tools of microeconomics are employed to identify the effects of legal rules and their social desirability. Five basic subject areas are covered. The first is legal liability for harm. Here we...
