In this Article, I offer a macroeconomic perspective on law that reshapes the microeconomic perspective that currently dominates law and economics. I argue that 1. The economy works one way in ordinary economic conditions, in which supply capacity determines output, and a different way in deep...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Law, Fiscal Policy, and Monetary Policy -- 1. Macroeconomics outside of a Liquidity Trap -- 2. Law and Fiscal Policy When Interest Rates Are Well above Zero -- 3. Law and Monetary Policy When Interest Rates Are...

Recent studies estimate that the economic impact of U.S. patent litigation may be as large as $80 billion per year and that the overall rate of U.S. patent litigation has been growing rapidly over the past twenty years. And yet, the relationship of the macroeconomy to patent litigation rates has...