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    The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.

    • Title:The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.
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    • Author/Creator:Farnsworth, Ward, 1967-
    • Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Law--Methodology.
      Sociological jurisprudence.
      Law and economics.
      Law--Psychological aspects.
    • Description:xii, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • ISBN:9780226238340 (cloth : alk. paper)
      0226238342 (cloth : alk. paper)
      9780226238357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      0226238350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Pt. I. Incentives
      1. Ex ante and ex post
      2. idea of efficiency
      3. Thinking at the margin
      4. single owner
      5. least cost avoider
      6. Administrative cost
      7. Rents
      8. coase theorem
      Pt. II. Trust, cooperation, and other problems for multiple players
      9. Agency / Ward Farnsworth and Eric Posner
      10. prisoner's dilemma
      11. Public goods
      12. stag hunt
      13. Chicken
      14. Cascades
      15. Voting paradoxes
      16. Suppressed markets / Ward Farnsworth and Saul Levmore
      Pt. III. Jurisprudence
      17. Rules and standards
      18. Slippery slopes / Ward Farnsworth and Eugene Volokh
      19. Acoustic separation
      20. Property rules and liability rules
      21. Baselines
      Pt. IV. Psychology
      22. Willingness to pay and willingness to accept : the endowment effect and kindred ideas
      23. Hindsight bias
      24. Framing effects
      25. Anchoring
      26. Self-serving bias, with a note on attribution error
      Pt. V. Problems of proof
      27. Presumptions
      28. Standards of proof
      29. product rule
      30. base rate
      31. Value and markets.
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