This Research Handbook assembles the original work of leading legal and economic scholars, working in a variety of traditions and methodologies, on the economic analysis of labor and employment law. In addition to surveying the current state of the art on the economics of labor markets and...

This pioneering Handbook contains specially-commissioned chapters on tort law from leading experts in the field. This volume evaluates issues of vital importance to those seeking to understand and reform the tort law and the litigation process, taking a multi-disciplinary approach, including...

Ribstein's account of the perilous times ahead for “Big Law” mentions “deprofessionalization” as one of the major risks for the legal profession. Deprofessionalization involves the substitution of standardized practices and protocols for existing methods of production of professional...

This paper addresses the important question: What is the proper role of the state in the general area of environmental regulation? The subject itself poses certain major difficulties for political theories which, whatever their differences, at least call for both a...

Ronald Coase’s signal achievement relates to the role of transactions costs in two contexts: the formation and maintenance of the firm and the systematic analysis of social costs. These transaction-cost explanations, however, do not offer a complete explanation of the variations observed in...

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Hoover Classics Edition -- Foreword -- Brief Introduction to the American Edition: Back Home Again -- 1. Modern Justifications for Classical Liberalism -- 2. Between Socialism and Libertarianism -- 3. Competition and...