Law and Economics: A Reader

Key features of the reader include:

- The accessibility of the material: the articles should be understandable to those with only a limited background in economics and law.

- The book’s focus on the most important and basic – foundational – issues in law and economics.

- An exposition of the opposition between the different legal systems that exist in the world including common law, civil law and public law.

- Debates viewed from the perspective of the scholars from a range of backgrounds are presented as well as all the key figures in economics and in law.

The book should prove to be an essential resource to all students studying this burgeoning field and represents an exciting introduction to one of the key disciplines which has grown up in the social sciences in recent times.