Economics of information and law
By: Ejan Mackaay.
Publisher: Kluwer-Nijhoff Pub.; Distributors for North America, Kluwer Boston
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Boston; Hingham, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Commercial law.; Trade regulation.; Liability (Law); Records.; Economics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Reprint. Originally published: Montréal : Groupe de recherche en consommation, 1980.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Amsterdam)
Table of contents: title: PART I   THE PROMISE AND PREMISES OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW	1; title: Chapter 1.  The Promise 	3; title: Chapter 2.  Economic Premises 	15; title: Chapter 3.  Economic analysis of major common law doctrines   1.  The mainstream view	33; title: Chapter 4.  Economics of major common law doctrines   II. The critics 	87; title: PART II  THE COSTLINESS OF INFORMATION INTRODUCED IN THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW 	113; title: Chapter 5.  The role of information in the economic world view 	115; title: Chapter 6.  Search    I. Human information processing 	127; title: Chapter 7.  Search   II. Information acquisition in markets 	155; title: Chapter 8 Risk bearing 	187; title: Chapter 9 An application: reflections on consumer protection law 	209; title: GENERAL CONCLUSION 	243; title: REFERENCES 	245