Bücher der Reihe The Economics of Legal Relationships

This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation.

This book collects original contributions, from both economists and lawyers, related to the new European Union Directives just approved in 2014 by the EU Parliament.

This collection of 22 commissioned essays from scholars across numerous fields responded to the question: What are the most fundamental things you can say concerning the interrelations between the institutions of government and property?

There is a tension in today's public policy governing network industries and difference of opinion as to whether current antitrust laws are suitable for dealing with the novel and rapidly changing issues raised by these industries.

Featuring a broad range of contributors, current data, and case studies, this book explores how the discussion of environmental policy requires the integration of legal-economic analysis of property rights issues.

Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs, and open source software are debated and yet poorly understood. This book states that there is a need for sound economic theorizing on such issues. It offers a concise exposition of the economics of property rights.

Why has Law and Economics movement become successful? What is the status of the Chicago School? What are the alternative theories and how much influence do they exert? What can be considered mainstream? What are the norms and values underlying this impressive body of research? This book explores these issues, amongst others.

Presents a systematic overview of models that are dedicated to patent policy. This book describes various aspects that are associated with patents, including innovation, patent policy instruments, licensing, and the tension between patent policy and competition policy.

Enhances the economic understanding of the firm as an institution and an organization, looking beyond the boundaries of neoclassical economics to an interdisciplinary approach based on accounting and law as well as economics itself. This title starts with a synthesis and a critique of the state of the different economic theories of the firm.

Now, for the first time, there is a comprehensive, eminently readable book designed to focus thinking in the area of contract law. This book bridges the gap between law and economics.

This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation.

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.