Law and Economics, Vol. 9 Book

Introduction, by Charles K. Rowley ix

THE LOGIC OF THE LAW Preface 3

PART 1. FUNDAMENTAL ASSUMPTIONS
1. Law without Ethics 9
2. Fundamental Assumptions 15

PART 2. CIVIL LAW
3. Contracts, Substantive Law 37
4. Enforcement of Contracts 55
5. Anglo-Saxon Encumbrances 73
6. Accidents 98
7. Status 124

PART 3. CRIMINAL LAW
8. Motor Vehicle Offenses and Tax Evasion 137
9. Jurisprudence: Some Myths Dispelled 152
10. Jurisprudence: Some General Problems 173
11. Theft and Robbery 189
12. Fraud and Information Control 204
13. Crimes against the Person 215

PART 4. ETHICS
14. Ethics 225

Appendix A: Exceptions to the Social Contract 229
Appendix B: General Table of Symbols 235

THE ECONOMIICS OF LEGAL PROCEEDINGS The “Dead Hand” of Monopoly (James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock) 241
Does Punishment Deter Crime? 252
Two Kinds of Legal Efficiency 263
Optimal Procedure 274
Technology: The Anglo-Saxons versus the Rest of the World 291
Various Ways of Dealing with the Cost of Litigation 309
The Motivation of Judges 324
Defending the Napoleonic Code over the Common Law 339
Negligence Again 364
Welfare and the Law 380

THE CASE AGAINST THE COMMON LAW
1. Introduction 399
2. The Ideal of the Common Law 403
3. The Common Law in Public Choice Perspective 411
4. All the World’s a Stage 413
5. The Play’s the Thing 431
6. The Tragedie of the Common Law System in the United States 441
7. Why I Prefer Napoléon 449

Index 457