Economics, Law and Individual Rights

Informationen zum Autor Hugo M. Mialon is Assistant Professor of Economics at Emory University. Paul H. Rubin is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics and Law at Emory University and Editor in Chief of Managerial and Decision Economics. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to examine individual rights from an economic perspective, collecting together leading articles in this emerging area of interest and showing the vibrant and expanding scholarship that relates them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Hugo M. Mialon and Paul H.Rubin 2. The Economics of the First Amendment: The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas R.H. Coase 3. An Economic Analysis of the Law of False Advertising Ellen R. Jordan and Paul H. Rubin 4. Freedom of Speech vs. Efficient Regulation in Markets for Ideas Albert Breton and Ronald Wintrobe 5. A Free Press is Bad News for Corruption Aymo Brunetti and Beatrice Weder 6. The Market for News Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer 7. The Impact of Gun Laws: A Model of Crime and Self Defence Hugo M. Mialon and Thomas Wiseman 8. Crime, Deterrence and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns John R. Lott and David B. Mustard 9. The Effect of Concealed Handgun Laws on Crime: Beyond the Dummy Variables Hashem Dezhbakhsh and Paul H. Rubin 10. Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates: Mapping out the Consequences of the Exclusionary Rule Raymond A. Atkins and Paul H. Rubin 11. An Economic Theory of the Fifth Amendment Hugo M. Mialon 12. The Effects of a Right to Silence Daniel J. Seidmann 13. Noisy Juries and the Choice of Trial Mode in a Sequential Signalling Game: Theory and Evidence Gerald D. Gay, Martin F. Grace, Jayant R. Kale and Thomas H. Noe 14. Runaway Judges?: Selection Effects and the Jury Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok 15. Reasonable Doubt and the Optimal Magnitude of Fines: Should the Penalty Fit the Crime, James Andreoni 16. The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: A Question of Life and Death Isaac Ehrlich 17. Does Capital Punishment Have a Deterrent Effect?: New Evidence form Postmoratorium Panel Data Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin and Joanna M. Shepherd ...

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• Authors: Hugo Mialon, Hugo H. Rubin Mialon, Hugo M. (Emory University Mialon, Hugo M. Rubin Mialon, Mialon Hugo, MIALON HUGO H RUBIN PAUL H
• Assisted by: Hugo M. Mialon (Editor), Hugo M. (Emory University Mialon (Editor), Mialon Hugo M. (Editor), Paul H. Rubin (Editor), Paul H. (Emory University Rubin (Editor), Rubin Paul H. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780415772815
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77281-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships; The Economics of Legal Relationships
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Law, International Law, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Jurisprudence & general issues, Economic theory and philosophy, Jurisprudence and general issues