Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics

Property and Liability: An Introduction to Law and Economics

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Property
    Property is where law and economics meet, but it's not a simple concept. Property is not an object or a relation between people and objects, but a set of rights, relations among people over who is to control each of the many uses to which objects can be put. D...
  • Week 2 - Exchange and Efficiency
    Voluntary exchange implies mutual benefit – when people trade property rights, it's because they each believe that what they get from the trade will be more valuable to them than what they have to give up to get it. So if there are no obstacles to voluntary ex...
  • Week 3 - Externality
    Exchange involves both benefit and cost – traders take rights from others, imposing costs on them but creating benefit for themselves, but they must compensate the others for their costs by paying for the rights they've taken. External costs are imposed when o...
  • Week 4 - Crime and Punishment
    Some externalities involve only a few uncompensated losers of rights whose costs are easily reckoned in monetary terms, so that forcing the taker to pay exactly these costs to the victims ensures both that victims will be fairly compensated and that takers wil...
  • Week 5 - Property, Utility and Technology
    The concept of property is developed in two new directions. One concerns the problem of eminent domain and evokes the ancient conflict between individual rights and collective needs – in what circumstances, and to what extent, should private property be protec...
  • Week 6 - Criminal Procedure
    Criminal liability means that crimes have prices, and how these prices are exacted in practice from people who take rights without compensation is the problem of criminal procedure. How do judges know who is guilty, and what prices guilty people should be made...

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Richard Adelstein
Professor
Department of Economics

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