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<i>Issues in Law and Economics</i> furnishes readers with a readily understandable and highly interesting overview of the new and influential field of law and economics. Each chapter begins with a legal case or example and uses that as a springboard for an analytical (but nontechnical) discussion. Such topics as markets in human organs, copyright protection in the music industry, and decision making by criminals exemplify the breadth of Winter s engaging treatment of law and economics. --Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School, author of Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law

With nary a graph or algebraic expression, Winter does an excellent job of explaining complex issues and technical material in an admirably clear and accessible way, using cases to motivate topics across the major common law fields torts, contracts, property, and crime and showing how economists think about legal issues by boiling them down to fundamental economic problems. --Thomas J. Miceli, author of The Economic Approach to Law

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Harold Winter is professor of economics at Ohio University. He is the author of several books, including Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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