TY - BOOK AU - Devlin,Alan TI - Fundamental principles of law and economics SN - 9781138806023 PY - 2015/// CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [UK] PB - Routledge KW - Law and economics KW - Law KW - Economic aspects KW - Public policy (law) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Background principles in microeconomics -- Essential concepts in the law-and-economics literature -- Utilitarianism, neoclassical welfare economics, and the ethics of markets -- The economics of liability rules and accidents -- An economic account of tort doctrine -- An economic account of criminal behaviour -- Optimal criminal sanctions -- Problems in criminal law -- The economic role of property rights -- Protecting entitlements -- An economic theory of contract law -- The economics of contractual remedies -- An economic theory of litigation -- Innovation policy -- The patent system -- Copyright law -- Antitrust and the regulation of business strategy -- Antitrust limits on contract -- Monopolisation -- The regulation of natural monopoly -- Behavioural law & economics ER -