Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The nature of economic reasoning -- The economic approach to law -- Property -- Contract rights and remedies -- Family law and sex law -- Tort law -- Criminal law -- The common law, legal history, and jurisprudence -- The theory of monopoly -- The antitrust laws -- The regulation of the employment relation -- Public utility and common carrier regulation -- The choice between regulation and common law -- Corporations, secured and unsecured financing, bankruptcy -- Financial markets -- Income inequalities, distributive justice, and poverty -- Taxation -- The transmission of wealth at death -- The market, the adversary system, and the legislative process as methods of resource allocation -- The process of legal rulemaking -- Civil and criminal procedure -- Evidence -- Law enforcement and the administrative process -- The nature and functions of the constitution -- Economic due process -- The economics of federalism -- Racial discrimination -- The protection of free markets in ideas and religion -- Searches, seizures, and interrogations.