"The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshalling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of...

A methodological critique of the Chicago School of legaleconomic analysis, in particular Posner's approach, is illustrated by an example characterizing Chicago-type 'analysis of law'. Although the discussion of the example referred to may be interesting in its own right, its purpose here is to...