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Backhaus, G. Jürgen --- "The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005) [2005] ELECD 118

Editor(s): Backhaus, G. Jürgen

Title: The Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Second Edition

Series: Elgar original reference

Topics: Law and Economics

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 28 September 2005

Number of pages: 784

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845420321

EISBN: 9781845425500

Abstract/Description:

This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular and authoritative reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all the significant issues, and breaks new ground by bringing together widely dispersed yet theoretically congruent ideas.

Following a comprehensive introduction by the editor, the renowned contributors look in detail at several critical areas including:

• fundamentals of the law and economics approach

• private law and economics

• public law and economics

• labour law and economics

• regulation, taxation and public enterprise

• dispute resolution

• different sources of the law

• economic analysis of a legal problem

• classical authors in law and economics.

Students and scholars interested in a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the field of law and economics will find this volume to be a unique and welcome resource. The Companion will also have a broad appeal amongst industrial economists and historians of economic thought.