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  • Contract Theory

    by Prof Stephen A. Smith ...
    Series series Clarendon Law Series
    This book is both an examination of, and a contribution to, our understanding of the theoretical foundations of the common law of contract. Focusing on contemporary debates in contract theory, Contract Theory aims to help readers better understand the nature and justification of the general idea of contractual obligation, as well as the nature and justification of the particular rules that make up ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

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  • Anarchy, State, and Utopia

    by Robert Nozick ...
    The foundational text of libertarian thought, named one of the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)First published in response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since become one of the defining texts in classic libertarian thought. Challenging and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Cost of Accidents

    A Legal and Economic Analysis

    by Guido Calabresi ...

    $24.99 USD

  • The Future of Law and Economics

    Essays in Reform and Recollection

    by Guido Calabresi ...
    In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite, strain, “economic analysis of law,” examines the legal system in the light of economic theory and shows how economics might render law more effective. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Contract Law

    Rules, Theory, and Context

    by Brian H. Bix ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    To gain a deep understanding of contract law, one needs to master not only the rules and principles of the field, but also its underlying theory and justification, and its long and intricate history. This book offers an accessible introduction to all aspects of American contract law, useful to both first-year law students and advanced contract scholars. The book is grounded on up-to-date ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • What Economists Do: a Journey Through the History of Economic Thought

    From the Wealth of Nations to the Calculus of Consent

    by Attiat F. Ott, Sheila Vegari ...
    Economists are sometimes praised and often chastised for what happens to the nation and the world economies. But what exactly do economists do to earn either praise or scorn? Author Attiat F. Ott with Sheila Vegari explores the answer to that question in What Economists Do: A Journey through the History of Economic Thought.Ott and Vegari outline the discipline of economics through the views and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Property Rights (Routledge Revivals)

    Philosophic Foundations

    by Lawrence C. Becker ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations, first published in 1977, comprehensively examines the general justifications for systems of private property rights, and discusses with great clarity the major arguments as to the rights and responsibilities of property ownership. In particular, the arguments that hold that there are natural rights derived from first occupancy, labour, utility, liberty and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Classical Economists Revisited

    by D. P. O'Brien ...
    The Classical Economists Revisited conveys the extent, diversity, and richness of the literature of economics produced in the period extending from David Hume's Essays of 1752 to the final contributions of Fawcett and Cairnes in the 1870s. D. P. O'Brien thoroughly updates, rewrites, and expands the vastly influential work he first published in 1975, The Classical Economists. In particular, he sets ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Class Actions in Canada

    The Promise and Reality of Access to Justice

    by Jasminka Kalajdzic ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Whatever deficits remain in the Canadian project to make justice available to all, class actions have been heralded as a success. The theme of access to justice runs throughout the discourse on collective litigation, but what do access and justice mean in this context?Class actions have been employed over the past several decades to overcome barriers for those who would otherwise have no recourse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Key Ideas in Tort Law

    by Professor Peter Cane ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Law
    This book offers nine key ideas about tort law that will help the reader to understand its various social functions and evaluate its effectiveness in performing those functions. The book focuses, in particular, on how tort law can guide people's behaviour, and the political and social environments within which it operates. It also provides the reader with a wealth of detail about the ideas and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Revolution That Never Was

    by Will Hutton ...
    Will Hutton argues that Keynesian revolution has yet to take place. Economists, he finds, have not yet come to terms with the heart of Keynes' argument: that there are limits to what prices can do in a market economy. But referring closely to Keynes' writings, Hutton demonstrates that Keynes was concerned to show how the financial sector of the economy originated and how it reinforced the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Tort Law and Social Morality

    by Peter M. Gerhart ...
    This book develops a theory of tort law that integrates deontic and consequential approaches by applying justificational analysis to identify the factors, circumstances, and values that shape tort law. Drawing on Kantian and Rawlsian philosophy, and on the insights of game theorist Ken Binmore, this book refocuses tort law on a single theory of responsibility that explains and justifies the broad ... Read more

    $38.59 USD