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