Rules, Rights, and Runtimes

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  1. 01 What Is Law and Economics?
  2. 02 The Microeconomic Toolkit for Law
  3. 03 Law, Courts, and Legal Institutions
  4. 04 Transaction Costs and the Coase Theorem
  5. 05 Property Rights and Institutional Evolution
  6. 06 Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Information Goods
  7. 07 Torts, Accidents, and Incentives
  8. 08 Contracts, Bargaining, and Enforcement
  9. 09 Courts, Litigation, and Dispute Resolution
  10. 10 Does the Common Law Tend Toward Efficiency?
  11. 11 Crime, Punishment, and Social Order
  12. 12 The Corporation as a Legal Technology
  13. 13 Regulation and Public Choice
  14. 14 Antitrust, Competition, and Market Power
  15. 15 Platforms, Code, and AI: New Questions for Law and Economics
  16. 16 From Rights to Runtimes: The Long Arc of Legal Technology