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The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.
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Title:The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.
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Author/Creator:Farnsworth, Ward, 1967-
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Published/Created:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: K212 .F37 2007 (LC)
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Law--Methodology.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Law and economics.
Law--Psychological aspects.
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Description:xii, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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ISBN:9780226238340 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226238342 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226238357 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226238350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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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.