Legal Analyst A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law

Name: Legal Analyst A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
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ISBN: 9780226238357

ISBN-10: 0226238350

ISBN-13: 9780226238357

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ward Farnsworth

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There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In "The Legal Analyst," Ward Farnsworth brings together in one place all of the most powerful of those tools for thinking about law. From classic ideas in game theory such as the "Prisoner's Dilemma" and the "Stag Hunt" to psychological principles such as hindsight bias and framing effects, from ideas in jurisprudence such as the slippery slope to more than two dozen other such principles, Farnsworth's guide…

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 326
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Ward Farnsworth is dean and the John Jeffers Research Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. He is the author many books, including The Legal Analyst, also published by the University of Chicago Press.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Incentives



Ex Ante and Ex Post



The Idea of Efficiency



Thinking at the Margin



The Single Owner



The Least Cost Avoider



Administrative Cost



Rents



The Coase Theorem



Trust, Cooperation, and Other Problems for Multiple Players



Agency




The Prisoner's Dilemma



Public Goods



The Stag Hunt



Chicken



Cascades



Voting Paradoxes



Suppressed Markets




Jurisprudence



Rules and Standards



Slippery Slopes




Acoustic Separation



Property Rules and Liability Rules



Baselines



Psychology



Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept: The Endowment Effect and Kindred Ideas



Hindsight Bias



Framing Effects



Anchoring



Self-Serving Bias, with a Note on Attribution Error



Problems of Proof



Presumptions



Standards of Proof



The Product Rule



The Base Rate



Value and Markets


Notes


Author Index


Subject Index