Principles and methods of law and economics :basic tools for normative reasoning
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Cambridge ; New York
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Cambridge University Press
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2005
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xiv, 378 p. : illus, tables.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos
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From formal logic to normative reasoning -- Social welfare versus moral philosophy -- From political philosophy to game theory -- The importance of distribution of wealth -- Coase and law's irrelevance -- More failures of Coasean irrelevance -- Mathematical modelling -- Confronting uncertainty : basic probability theory -- Advanced probability : distributions as the shape of randomness -- How to price uncertainty : finance -- Finance and probability : options and derivatives -- Using spreadsheets -- Statistics -- Conclusion : importing methodological innovations