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"Contents" [2017] ELECD 1565; in Zywicki, J. Todd; Boettke, J. Peter (eds), "Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) vii

Book Title: Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics

Editor(s): Zywicki, J. Todd; Boettke, J. Peter

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849801133

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of contributors ix

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Law and economics: the contributions of the Austrian School
of Economics 3
Peter J. Boettke and Todd J. Zywicki

PART II METHODOLOGY OF LAW AND ECONOMICS

2 Property rights, the Coase Theorem and informality 29
Martín Krause
3 Coase, Posner, and Austrian law and economics 46
Peter T. Leeson

PART III EVOLUTIONARY LAW

4 Nature as first custom: Hayek on the evolution of social rules 65
Gerald J. Postema
5 The law and economics of rule reform 92
Christopher J. Coyne
6 Legal process for fostering innovation 109
Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein
7 Customary commercial law, credibility, contracting, and
credit in the high Middle Ages 129
Bruce L. Benson
8 Self-governance, property rights, and illicit commerce 178
David Skarbek
9 Austrian law and economics and efficiency in the common law 192
Todd J. Zywicki and Edward P. Stringham
10 Dispute resolution when rationalities conflict: cost and choice
in a mixed economy 209
Richard E. Wagner

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PART IV BASIC LAW

11 Sparks cases in contemporary law and economic scholarship 233
Eric R. Claeys
12 Austrian economics and tort law 261
Michael E. DeBow
13 Antitrust and competition from a market-process perspective 278
Donald J. Boudreaux
14 Civil procedure reconsidered 296
Jeffrey S. Parker
15 An Austrian analysis of contemporary American business
law 325
Peter G. Klein and Thomas A. Lambert
16 Firms without boards: unleashing the Hayekian ...