Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I. Introduction -- Sociological Jurisprudence and Legal Economics: Risks and Rewards -- II. General Framework -- Law as an Instrument of Rational Practice -- Social Science Models in Economic Law -- Where the Legal Action is: Critical Legal Studies and Empiricism -- III. Contract -- The Use of Economics to Elucidate Legal Concepts: The Law of Contract -- Some Notes on the Economic Analysis of Contract Law -- Neo-Institutional Economic Theory: Issues of Landlord and Tenant Law -- Quality Regulation in Consumer Goods Markets: Theoretical Concepts and Practical Examples -- The Design and Performance of Long-Term Contracts -- IV. Organisation -- The Contribution of Economics to Legal Analysis: The Concept of the Firm -- Potential and Limits of Economic Analysis: The Constitution of the Firm -- From Old to New Monism: An Approach to an Economic Theory of the "Constitution" of the Firm -- Codetermination and Property Rights Theory -- Industrial Democracy Through Law? Social Functions of Law in Institutional Innovations -- Federal Aspects of Corporate Law and Economic Theory -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Index
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I. Introduction -- Sociological Jurisprudence and Legal Economics: Risks and Rewards -- II. General Framework -- Law as an Instrument of Rational Practice -- Social Science Models in Economic Law -- Where the Legal Action is: Critical Legal Studies and Empiricism -- III. Contract -- The Use of Economics to Elucidate Legal Concepts: The Law of Contract -- Some Notes on the Economic Analysis of Contract Law -- Neo-Institutional Economic Theory: Issues of Landlord and Tenant Law -- Quality Regulation in Consumer Goods Markets: Theoretical Concepts and Practical Examples -- The Design and Performance of Long-Term Contracts -- IV. Organisation -- The Contribution of Economics to Legal Analysis: The Concept of the Firm -- Potential and Limits of Economic Analysis: The Constitution of the Firm -- From Old to New Monism: An Approach to an Economic Theory of the "Constitution" of the Firm -- Codetermination and Property Rights Theory -- Industrial Democracy Through Law? Social Functions of Law in Institutional Innovations -- Federal Aspects of Corporate Law and Economic Theory -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Index