I'll append the Table of Contents. When I compare it with the version from 2.5 years ago, well, yes, changes (I hope improvements) have been made, but the similarities seem to dominate the differences. (Chapters 3, 4, and 5, largely are intact -- I wonder how much those intact sections themselves have been revised?) Hmmm. For my own edification, I'll put asterisks next to new or perhaps massively altered sections.
Concepts
in Law and Economics: A Guide for the Curious
Jim
Leitzel
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Original of Laura
Choice in
the Shadow of the Law
Chapter 1: E pluribus unum
Robin
Efficiency
Jeremy
Bentham
The Art of
the Deal
Willingness-to-pay
Why
Maximize Aggregate Wellbeing?
*Just
Compensation
Common Law
and Civil Law
The Coase
Theorem
Establishing
a Market to Erode Rent Controls
The Coase
Corollary
More on
Property Rights and Efficiency: The Tragedy of the Commons
The Reverse
of the Medal: Property Rights and the Anticommons
*An
Aside on View Blocking
*What
Happens When a Property Right is Infringed?
Chapter 2: Efficiency pluribus unum
*The Sixty Minute Law School
*Property, Mostly a Reprise
*Who
Owns Meteorites?
Contracts
Expectation
Damages and Efficient Breach
Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., on Bad Men and the Law
Accidents
Strict
Liability
Negligence
Crime
*Purposes of
Punishing Crime
Efficiency When?
*Retribution?
Standards of Proof
Chapter 3: What’s done is done?
Bart and
Lance
Chicago Dibs
Patents
Advance Market Commitments
Preventive
and Punitory Measures
Firearm
Regulation
John
Stuart Mill
Low
Probability, High Punishment Regimes
Destruction
of Property: What’s Done Cannot Be Undone?
Moral
Rights: What’s Done Cannot Be Redone?
*Defacing
or Improving?
Intellectual
Property: What’s Done Can Be Done Repeatedly
Public
Goods
Nabokov and
Existence Value
Chapter 4: Squeezing a balloon
The
Peltzman Effect
*Endangered
Species
Art Again:
Resale Rights, or Droit de Suite
Using the Law to
Serve Distributional Goals
Squeezing
Copyright
Creative
Commons and Open Access
The De Facto Liberalization of the Copyright
Regime
A World
Without Copyright
Radiohead and Nine
Inch Nails
Copyright
Vacuums
Fashion
Design
Comedy
Squeezing
Newspapers
Hyperlocal
News
Deflating
Subsidies
Chapter 5: Deorum injuriae Diis curae
Low-cost Avoider
or Insurer
Products
Liability
Comparative
Negligence
Foreseeable
Misuse and Attractive Nuisance
Mill and
the Harm Principle
Pecuniary
Externalities
Blocked
Exchanges
Kidney Markets
The
Iranian Kidney Transplant Program
The Parthenon
Marbles and Cultural Property
Statutes
of Limitation and Adverse Possession
Chapter 6: Crooked timber
Enforcing
Contracts
Lochner
v. New York
(1905)
Dealing
with Uncertainty
Unconscionability
*Willpower
Lapses
The
Endowment Effect
Default
Rules
Organ
Donations, Reprise
*Selling
Kidneys
Vice,
Rationality, and Defaults
*Re-legalizing
Drugs
*An
Option to Commit to Opting Out: Self-Exclusion
*Preventive
and Punitory Measures, Again
*A Happy
Ending?
*Conclusions
References
*Glossary
