The Politics of Private Law in Historical and Comparative Perspective

Section 5 . 4 . 2

The economic approach to rule making in tort law

Prof. Duncan Kennedy

Reading(s): Ronald Coase, The Problem of Social Cost, 3 J.L. & Econ. 1, 2 (1960) & Joseph Singer note Duncan Kennedy, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Entitlement Problems: A Critique, 33 Stan. L. Rev. 387 (1981) Duncan Kennedy, Law and Economics from the Perspective of Critical Legal Studies, 2 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 465 (1998)

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