Economics, law, and individual rights / edited by Hugo M. Mialon and Paul H. Rubin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Hugo M. Mialon and Paul H.Rubin -- The economics of the First Amendment : the market for goods and the market for ideas / R. H. Coase -- An economic analysis of the law of false advertising / Ellen R. Jordan and Paul H. Rubin -- Freedom of speech vs. efficient regulation in markets for ideas / Albert Breton and Ronald Wintrobe -- A free press is bad news for corruption / Aymo Brunetti and Beatrice Weder --The market for news / Sendhil Mullainathan and Andrei Shleifer --The impact of gun laws : a model of crime and self defence / Hugo M. Mialon and Thomas Wiseman -- Crime, deterrence, and right-to-carry concealed handguns / John R. Lott and David B. Mustard --The effect of concealed handgun laws on crime : beyond the dummy variables / Hashem Dezhbakhsh and Paul H. Rubin -- Effects of criminal procedure on crime rates : mapping out the consequences of the exclusionary rule / Raymond A. Atkins and Paul H. Rubin -- An economic theory of the Fifth Amendment / Hugo M. Mialon -- The effects of a right to lence / Daniel J. Seidmann -- Noisy juries and the choice of trial mode in a sequential signalling game : theory and evidence / Gerald D. Gay, Martin F. Grace, Jayant R. Kale, and Thomas H. Noe -- Runaway judges? selection effects and the jury / Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok -- Reasonable doubt and the optimal magnitude of fines : should the penalty fit the crime / James Andreoni --The deterrent effect of capital punishment : a question of life and death / Isaac Ehrlich -- Does capital punishment have a deterrent effect? new evidence form postmoratorium panel data / Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin, and Joanna M. Shepherd.