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| ISBN: | 140081166X
9781400811663
9781400823475
1400823471
0691010161
1299051138
9781299051133
9780691010168
0691090092
9780691090092
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| Notes: | Includes index.
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| Summary: | What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal philosophers ponder questions of justness. An economist, on the other hand, observes that making the punishment for armed robbery the same as that for murder encourages muggers to kill their victims. This is the cut-to-the-chase quality that makes economics not only applicable to the interpretation of law, but beneficial to its crafting. D.
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| Other form: | Print version: Friedman, David D. Law's order. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000 0691010161
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