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This timely research review successfully combines economically-oriented legal scholarship on insurance with policy-relevant economics scholarship on insurance. Professor Schwarcz has selected seminal contributions from the past twenty years to explore some of the central questions involving the role of the state in insurance markets. These include rules governing the interpretation and enforceability of insurance contracts, the regulation of insurers and insurance markets, and the role of public programs in supporting private insurance markets. This essential title will be of immense value and interest to students and academics interested in the diverse field of the law and economics of insurance.

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‘Often considered quite diverse, law and economics impact on the insurance industry in almost equal measure, which means that this copiously footnoted two-volume work, with its extensive bibliographies, will offer perspectives on the economic implications of the law which will be useful to insurance lawyers, economists, academics and graduate students alike.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine

'Often considered quite diverse, law and economics impact on the insurance industry in almost equal measure, which means that this copiously footnoted two-volume work, with its extensive bibliographies, will offer perspectives on the economic implications of the law which will be useful to insurance lawyers, economists, academics and graduate students alike.' -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine

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Edited by Daniel Schwarcz, Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, US

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