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   LAW & ECONOMICS

 

ALTERNATIVE  ECONOMIC  APPROACHES

TO LEGAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES

 

Margaret Oppenheimer,

and Nicholas Mercuro (eds.)

 

M.E. Sharpe, 2005

 

                       Chapter 16 :   

                      F. Toboso,  lnstitutional Change and Economic Growth in Spain Since Democratic Transition in 1978

 

 

Table of Contents

 

Preface

By Warren Samuels, Michigan State University.

 

 

Introduction: New Approaches to Law & Economics

 

Chapter 1

Title: Law & Economics - Making the Case for a Broader Approach

Authors: Margaret Oppenheimer, DePaul University and Nicholas Mercuro, Michigan State University

 

Chapter 2

Title: The Foundations of Socio-Economics

Author: Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington University

 

Chapter 3

Title: Grounding the Law in the Premises and Principies of Personalist Economics

Author: Edward J. O'Boyle, Mayo Research Institute

 

 

Legal Issues Concerning Firms and Market Structure I

 

Chapter 4

Title: The Inadequacy of Competition Laws: A New-Institutional Approach

Author: Claude Menard, University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Legal Issue: Monopolyand Competition Laws Applied to New Types of Mergers and Alliances Approach: New-lnstitutional Economics

 

Chapter 5

Title: The Market Path to Liberation: Feminism, Economics, and Corporate Law

Author: Kellye Y. Testy, Seattle University

Legal Issue: Corporate Governance

Approaches: Feminist Economics and Socio-Economics

 

Chapter 6

Title: Alternative Economic Approaches to Antitrust Enforcement: Their Relationships and Impats

Authors: Patrick J. Welch and Thomas L. Greaney, Sto Louis University

Legal Issue: Antitrust Law

/ Approach: Harvard Approach to Antitrust

 

 

Legal Issues Concerning Natural Resources, the Environment and Land Use

 

Chapter 7

Title: A Comparative Institutional Approach to Law and Economics.. Theory &

Environmental, Natural Resource, and Land-Use Applications

Author: Nicholas Mercuro, Michigan State University

Legal Issue: Environmental, Natural Resource and Land-Use

Economic Approach: Institutional Economics

 

Chapter 8

Title: Hudson Valley Land Use - History and Prospect

Author: Ann Davis, Marist College

Legal Issue: Land Use and Property Rights

Approach: Institutional Economics

 

Chapter 9

Title: Prior Questions.. Endogenous Property Rights in Economic Theory and History

Author: Elizabeth Kruse, Economist, Office of Program Evaluation and Risk Analysis, IRS,

Washington, DC.

Legal Issue: Property Rights (including a Case Study of Property Rights in the Radio Spectrum) Approaches: New-Institutional, Institutional and Radical Economics

 

 

 

Legal Issue Concerning Labor, Employment and Unemployment

 

Chapter 10

Title: An Economic Analysis of the Regulation of Unions and Collective BargainingAuthor:

Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Indiana University

Legal Issue: Regulation of Unions and Collective Bargaining

Approaches: Behavioral Economics and Game Theory

 

Chapter 11

Title: A Behavioral Labor Supply Approach to Working Time Law and Regulation

Authors: Morris Altman, University of Saskatchewan, and Lonnie Golden, Penn State

University

Legal Issue: Working Time Laws and Regulations

Approaches: Behavioral and Social Economics

 

Chapter 12

Title: The Efficiency and Employment Enhancing Effects of Social Welfare

Author: Morris Altman, University of Saskatchewan

 Legal Issue: Welfare Payments and Policy

Approach: Behavioral Economics

 

Chapter 13

Title: Efficient But Not Equitable: The Problem With Using the Law and Economics Paradigm to Interpret Sexual Harassment in the Work Place

Author: Toni Lester, Babson College

Legal Issue: Sexual Harassment in the Work Place

Approach: Feminist Economics

Reprint of an article in the Vermont Law Review.

 

 

Other Legal Issues

 

Chapter 14

Title: Social Economics, Kant, and the Economics of Crime

Author: Mark D. White, College of Staten lsland, NY

Legal Issue: Criminal Law

Approach: Social Economics

 

Chapter 15

Title: Austrian Economics, Kant, Coase, and Tort Law

Author: Mark D. White, College of Staten lsland, NY

Legal Issue: Tort Law

Approach: Austrian Economics

 

Chapter 16

Title: lnstitutional Change and Economic Growth in Spain Since Democratic Transition in 1978.

Author: Fernando Toboso, Universidad de Valencia, Spain

Legal Issue: National Governance

Approach: lnstitutional Political Economy