Economics and the Law
"`You can't tell the players without a scorecard,' or so vendors at a baseball game say, and the Mercuro and Medema book under review provides team scorecards and much more: intellectual histories and outlines of the dominant styles of play by the Chicago School and its New Haven opponents, the public choice school and its civic republican opposition, institutional and neoinstitutional economics, and critical legal studies as a postmodern counterweight to the various economics enterprises."--Paul H. Brietzke,Valparaiso University Law Review"[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the broad contours of Law and Economics.... It can be especially recommended to readers interested in short but very informative overviews on different aspects of this discipline."--Hans-Bernd Schfer,Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics"The authors' primary goal, which they achieve admirably, is to provide a concise review of the major scholarly traditions that use economic analysis of the law. . . . [T]he descriptions of each tradition are clear and painstakingly evenhanded. . . . This brief volume provides a sound understanding of each tradition's virtues and weaknesses."--Constitutional Political Economy