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Judge Richard A. Posner is internationally regarded as a leading exponent and founding father of the law and economics movement. This volume draws together a selection of his most important papers on the methodology and the theory of law and economics. The themes explored in this book include: the economics of common law; the criterion of wealth maximization; an economic approach to judicial rulemaking; the application of finance theory to law; and the methodology of law and economics.

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Richard A. Posner, retired Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and formerly Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, US Edited by Francesco Parisi, Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, US and Professor of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy

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