Ending Income Inequality - A Critical Approach to the Law and Economics of Redistribution

Income inequality has been rising for decades, yet there is a longstanding bias in legal thought-especially among law and economics scholars-against using legal rules to respond to this problem. This book shows why we should use legal rules, and not just income taxes, to address rising income inequality.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: 1. Orienting the argument; 2. Redistributing income efficiently; Part II. The Common Law: 3. Property; 4. Torts; 5. Contracts; Part III. Regulation and Functional Law: 6. Labor and Employment Law; 7. Antitrust; 8. Intellectual Property; 9. Housing Regulation; Part IV. Contents: 10. Conclusion.

About the author

Matthew Dimick is Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo School of Law and Director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy.

Summary

Income inequality has been rising for decades, yet there is a longstanding bias in legal thought-especially among law and economics scholars-against using legal rules to respond to this problem. This book shows why we should use legal rules, and not just income taxes, to address rising income inequality.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Dimick, Matthew (University of Buffalo School of L Dimick, Dimick Matthew
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781108822848
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82284-8
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Social Mobility, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Taxation and duties law, Poverty and precarity, Public finance and taxation, International economic & trade law