法律经济学

Richard A. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law, 9th Edition.

Richard A. Posner, Economic Analysis of Law, 9th Edition. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2014. ISBN: 9781454833888.

Lucid, comprehensive, and definitive in its field, this text covers every aspect of economic analysis of the law.

Features:

  • Two new chapters, one on intellectual property, one on international and comparative law, both exploding fields of great importance.
  • Earlier editions’ questions have been converted to answers, making the book more accessible and informative.
  • Revised to be clearer and less technical.
  • More eclectic, reflecting recent criticisms of “rational choice” theory, in particular the need to supplement it with insights from psychology.
  • Greater attention paid to judicial behavior, realistically modeled and explained in economic terms.
  • Incorporates insights from the veritable explosion of books and articles published in the last few years on economic analysis of law.

Richard A. Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of numerous books, including Overcoming Law, a New York Times Book Review editors’ choices for best book of 1995 and An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton, one of Times‘ choices for Best Book of the Year in 1999 and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2000.

理查德·波斯纳:知识产权的法律经济学

Richard A. Posner 法官和 William M. Landes 教授是美国法律经济学阵营中的两位旗手式的人物,也是一对学术上的老搭档。继1987合作出版了The Economic Structure of Tort Law之后,去年又共同出版了 The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law 一书。(目前,这两本书的中译本都正在翻译之中。)

与上面的“大部头”专著不同,Posner 法官这篇“The Law & Economics of Intellectual Property”(发表于 Dædalus 杂志2002年春季号)是一篇高屋建瓴、简明扼要——连注释都没用——同时又不乏洞见的论文,在某种意义上甚至可以说是The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law一书的梗概。记得冯象老师在谈到学术写作规范时,曾经说这篇文章是一个可供学习的范本。现分享在此:

理查德·波斯纳:《知识产权的法律经济学》