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100			_aPosner Richard A
245			_aThe Economics of Justice
260			_aCambridge _bHarvard University Press _c1983
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505			_aCONTENTS 1. An Introduction to the Economics of Nonmarket Behaviour The Plan of the Book I. Justice and Efficiency; 2. Blackstone and Bentham Blackstone’s Commentaries Bentham’s Antipathy to Blackstone Blackstone and Bentham Compared 3. Utilitarianism, Economics, and Social Theory Some Problems of Utilitarianism Wealth Maximization as an Ethical Concept; 4. The Ethical and Political Basis of Wealth Maximization the Consensual Basis of Efficiency Implications for the Positive Economic Analysis of Law Dworkin’s Critique of Wealth Maximization II. The Origins of Justice; 5. The Homeric Version of the Minimal State Taxonomy of Limited Government Government and Political Values in Homer the Homeric Social Order Homeric Individualism Some Modern Parallels the Theory of the State; 6. A Theory of Primitive Society the Costs of Information A Model of Primitive Society Other Primitive Adaptations to High Information Costs; 7. The Economic Theory of Primitive Law the Legal Process Property Contracts Family Law the System of Strict Liability in Tort Criminal Law; 8. Retribution and Related Concepts of Punishment from Revenge to Retribution, and Beyond Pollution: Retribution against Neighbours and Descendants Guilt versus Responsibility III. Privacy and Related Interests; 9. Privacy as Secrecy the Economics of Private Information and Communications the Tort Law of Privacy; 10. A Broader View of Privacy the Etymology of Privacy: Seclusion and Autonomy Evidence for the Economic Theory of Privacy the Common Law and the Economic Theory of Privacy Defamation and Disparagement the Statutory Privacy Movement; 11. The Privacy Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court Privacy Cases before Griswold The Griswold Decision Privacy in the Supreme Court since Griswold Conclusion IV. The Supreme Court and Discrimination; 12. The Law and Economics of Discrimination; 13. The Defies Case and Reverse Discrimination the Reasonableness of Reverse Discrimination the Constitutional Issue; 14. Bakke, Weber, and Beyond Bakke Weber; Index
650			_a1. Justice - Social justice2. Economics
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