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The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.
Farnsworth, Ward, 1967-
2007
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Author
Farnsworth, Ward, 1967-
Title
The legal analyst : a toolkit for thinking about the law / Ward Farnsworth.
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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9780226238364 (electronic bk.)
0226238369 (electronic bk.)
1281956805
9781281956804
9780226238340 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226238342 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780226238357 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0226238350 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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1 online resource (xii, 341 pages)
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(OCoLC)304564056
Summary
There are two kinds of knowledge law school teaches: legal rules on the one hand, and tools for thinking about legal problems on the other. Although the tools are far more interesting and useful than the rules, they tend to be neglected in favor of other aspects of the curriculum. In The Legal Analyst, Ward Farnsworth brings together in one place all of the most powerful of those tools for thinking about law. From classic ideas in game theory such as the "Prisoner's Dilemma" and the "Stag Hunt" to psychological principles such as hindsight bias and framing effects, from ideas in jurisprudence s.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Print version: Farnsworth, Ward, 1967- Legal analyst. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007 0226238342 (OCoLC)76828864
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Ex ante and ex post
The idea of efficiency
Thinking at the margin
The single owner
The least cost avoider
Administrative cost
Rents
The coase theorem
Agency (with Eric Posner)
The prisoner's dilemma
Public goods
The stag hunt
Chicken
Cascades
Voting paradoxes
Suppressed markets (with Saul Levmore)
Rules and standards
Slippery slopes (with Eugene Volokh)
Acoustic separation
Property rules and liability rules
Baselines
Willingness to pay and willingness to accept : the endowment effect and kindred ideas
Hindsight bias
Framing effects
Anchoring
Self-serving bias, with a note on attribution error
Presumptions
Standards of proof
The product rule
The base rate
Value and markets.

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