International Review of Law and Economics

1981 - 2025

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Volume 4, issue 2, 1984

Posnerian law and economics on the bench pp. 107-130

Warren Samuels and Nicholas Mercuro

Wealth maximization and judicial decision-making pp. 131-135

Richard Posner

Restrictive convenants in the sale of a business: An economic perspective pp. 137-161

Michael Trebilcock

The economic explanation of legal phenomena pp. 163-183

Nick Jackson

The domain of rent-seeking behavior: Private or public choice? pp. 185-197

Thomas J. Dilorenzo

The demand for regulation. The case of Dutch inland shipping pp. 199-212

J. C. Bongaerts and A. S. Van Schaik

Excise taxes, import restrictions, and the allocation of time to illegal income-earning activity pp. 213-222

Arye Hillman and Eliakim Katz

The new law-and-economics: A research review: Cento G. Veljanovski, Oxford: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 1982. 160 pp. Copies are available for [UK pound]4.95 from the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK pp. 229-233

Edmund W. Kitch

The military origins of industrialisation and international trade rivalry: G. Sen, London: Frances Pinter, 1984. 277 pp pp. 233-235

Keith Hartley

Time and the macroeconomic analysis of income: Alvaro Cencini, London: Frances Pinter, 1984. 233 pp pp. 235-236

B. Hillier

Volume 4, issue 1, 1984

Legal rules and the basis for evaluating economic losses pp. 5-13

Jack Knetsch

Personal versus impersonal trade: The size of trading groups and contract law pp. 15-22

Robert Cooter and Janet T. Landa

The excess burden of public insurance. Some results from Swedish data pp. 23-28

Ingemar Hansson, Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Goran Skogh

An economic analysis of the right to a jury trial pp. 29-53

J. Palmer

The regressive nature of civil penalties pp. 55-66

Phyllis Altrogge and William Shughart

Issues in the regulation of cable TV pp. 67-82

Michael Waterson

What is "fair compensation" for death or injury? pp. 83-88

Clive Fraser

Law and the economy: Roger Bowles, Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1982. xvi+ 239 pp pp. 89-91

William J. Carney

Politicians, legislation, and the economy: An inquiry into the interest group theory of government: Robert E. McCormick and Robert D. Tollison, Boston, The Hague, London: Martin Nijhoff Publishing, 1981 pp. 91-95

Juergen Backhaus

An Introduction to law and economics: A.M. Polinsky, Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Co, 1983, 138+xv pp pp. 96-96

B. Beavis

The foreign corrupt practices act: Anatomy of a statute: George C. Greanias and Duane Windsor, Lexington, Mass. and Toronto: Lexington Books, 1982. ix+187 pp pp. 97-98

A. V. Lowe

Trials on trial: The pure theory of legal procedure: G. Tullock, Columbia University Press, 1981. xiii + 255 pp pp. 99-99

Charles Rowley

The Constitution, the Courts, and human rights: Michael J. Perry, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982. xi+ 165 + (footnotes and index) 74 pp pp. 99-102

J. A. Andrews

Property: Jesse Dukeminier and James E. Krier, Boston and Toronto: Little Brown, 1981. xxviii + 1457 pp pp. 102-103

A. I. Ogus

Volume 3, issue 2, 1983

The myth of the corporation as a creation of the state pp. 107-120

Gary M. Anderson and Robert Tollison

Effects of habitability and anti-speedy eviction laws on black and aged indigent tenant groups: An economic analysis pp. 121-135

Werner Z. Hirsch

The enigma of the kula ring: Gift-exchanges and primitive law and order pp. 137-160

Janet T. Landa

The effect of decision time and argument complexity on legal judgment pp. 161-178

James A. Yunker

On substituting a socially costless penalty for costly detection pp. 179-185

Dwight R. Lee

Judicial review and public firms pp. 187-205

Hugh Gravelle

Business, banking and urban history, essays in honour of S.G. Checkland: Anthony Slaven and Derek H. Aldcroft, eds., Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982. xv + 235 pp. [UK pound]15 pp. 207-208

T. C. Barker

Limited liability and the corporation: Tony Orhnial. ed.,London: Croom Helm, 1982.222 pp. [UK pound]12.95 pp. 208-210

Tim Frazer

The economics of industrial innovation: Christopher Freeman, (2nd edn.) London: Frances Pinter, 1982.250 pp. [UK pound]15.50 pp. 210-211

Michael Waterson

The computer in court: Alastair Kelman and Richard Sizer, London: Gower Publishing Co. Ltd, 1982.103 pp. [UK pound]14.50 pp. 211-212

Lydia Thomson

Volume 3, issue 1, 1983

Legal fees contracts and alternative cost rules: An economic analysis pp. 3-26

P. J. Halpern and S. M. Turnbull

Social costs in a private law setting pp. 27-44

A. I. Ogus

An economic theory of intentional torts: A comment pp. 45-57

Dorsey Ellis

Accident liability rules and externality pp. 59-68

Brian Hindley and Bill Bishop

Contract as promise--A review article based on contract as promise: A theory of contractual obligation, by Charles Fried (Harvard University Press: 1981) 162 pp pp. 69-77

Donald Harris

Evaluating choice: A note pp. 79-83

Brian Beavis and Charles Rowley

Evaluating choice: A reply pp. 85-87

Peter Jones and Robert Sugden

The economic approach to law: P. Burrows and C. Veljanovski, London: Butterworths, 1981. 343 pp pp. 89-93

Henry Hansmann

Mercantilism as a rent-seeking society: Economic regulation in historical perspective: Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. and Robert D. Tollison, Texas A & M University Press, 1981. 169 pp pp. 94-95

Norman McCord

How courts govern America: Richard Neely, Yale University Press, 1981. 226 + xvii pp., index pp. 95-97

I. V. Harden

Law and international resource conflicts: J.E.S. Fawcett and A. Parry, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981, issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute for International Affairs. 254 + xiv pp. [UK pound]20 pp. 97-99

C. J. Greenwood

Law and economics: An institutional perspective: W.J. Samuels and A.A. Schmid, eds., Martinus Nijhoff, 1981, 268 pp pp. 99-101

C. G. Veljanovski

Inheritance, wealth and society: Ronald Chester, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982, 189 pp pp. 101-103

Robert Burgess

Competition in international business: Law and policy on restrictive Practices: O. Schachter and R. Hellawell, eds., New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. 441 pp pp. 103-104

D. Swann

Volume 2, issue 2, 1982

Competition policy in Britain: Retrospect and prospect pp. 139-149

Sir Gordon Borrie

Welfare and the law pp. 151-163

Gordon Tullock

Idealised negligence, strict liability and deterrence pp. 165-172

Paul Burrows

The utility of economic analysis of crime pp. 173-191

Thomas Gibbons

The risks of contract law pp. 193-204

Jack Dowie

Remedies for dismissed employees in the UK: An economic analysis pp. 205-225

Paul Fenn and Christopher J. Whelan

Remedies for dismissed employees in the UK: An economic analysis pp. 227-233

Paul Fenn and Christopher J. Whelan

Volume 2, issue 1, 1982

The optimum enforcement of laws and the concept of justice: A positive analysis pp. 3-27

Isaac Ehrlich

The choice of governing instrument pp. 29-46

Michael J. Trebilcock and Douglas G. Hartle

Evaluating choice pp. 47-65

Peter Jones and Robert Sugden

Public insurance and accident prevention pp. 67-80

Goran Skogh

What is "fair compensation" for death or injury? pp. 81-93

David Friedman

Fines as economic incentives-- an alternative variable control pp. 95-109

Gary Yohe

A note on externalities and the placement of property rights: An alternative formulation to the standard pigouvian results pp. 111-118

Raymond S. Hartman

The practice and theory of evidence law -- a note pp. 119-126

Thomas Gibbons and Allan C. Hutchinson

The economics of non-proprietary organizations: Kenneth W. Clarkson and Donald L. Martin, eds. Research in Law and Economics, a Research Annual, Supplement I. Greenwich (Conn): JAI Press, 1980. xiii + 268 pp pp. 127-128

Anthony Culyer

The economics of environmental management: Julian Lowe and David Lewis, Oxford: Philip Allan, 1980. 344 pp pp. 128-129

Anthony Harris

The economic theory of the state: D. K. Whynes and R. A. Bowles, Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981. 236 pp pp. 130-131

Nick Jackson

The economic theory of pollution control: Paul Burrows, Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1980. 192 pp pp. 132-135

Joseph J. Seneca