LAW AND ECONOMICS COURSEWORK TOPIC A – 3000 WORDS Are people rational (in the economist’s sense) and reasonable (in the lawyer’s sense)? Whatever your answer to that question‚ does it matter? The idea behind the collaboration between the two drastically different fields of law and economics is to ascertain the implication of hypothetical rational person’s response to rules and legislations. The economic analysis of law is perhaps a better description between the fusion of these two fields.
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I. Summary St. Francis University was a medium-sized private University‚ located in a major port city in Visayas. The University is well known for its engineering and Science degree courses and was one of the better private universities in the city. It boasts of a total of 26‚000 enrollees at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The College of Commerce was a major unit of the University. However‚ it has only 3000 student enrollees or so‚ compared to the College of Engineering‚ which accounted
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what was even more important‚ to make clear the fundamental role which transaction costs do‚ and should‚ play in the fashioning of the institutions which make up the economic system." A zero transaction cost world does of course have very peculiar properties‚ such that one of Coase ’s own conclusions was that‚ in such a world‚ the law does not matter. People would always be able to negotiate without cost to acquire‚ subdivide and combine rights whenever this would increase the value of production
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Butterfield v. Forrester Factual Situation: 1809‚ Butterfield‚ plaintiff was riding and struck an a pole placed in the road by Forrester‚ defendant‚ at approximately 8 PM; sued for damages Witness testified that pole was visible at 100 yards with light at that time‚ and that Butterfield was riding recklessly Trial court: jury instructed that if an individual riding with reasonable care could have avoided the pole and that Butterfield was not riding with care‚ Forester should win Trial Court
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1. An externality is defined as a benefit or cost that is imposed on a third party‚ such as society‚ other than the producer or consumer of a good or service‚ or‚ more simply‚ an economic side effect. The more of a product that is consumed or produced‚ the more of an externality that results. When discussing externalities in general terms‚ positive externalities refer to the benefits and negative externalities refer to the costs associated with the production or consumption of a good or service.
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3. Describe what Pareto efficiency is and why economists use this criterion for comparing alternative economic systems. Use a graphic display in this essay. The term is named for an Italian economist‚ Vilfreo Pareto. A central concept in economics is Pareto efficiency. A situation is said to be Pareto efficient if there is no way to rearrange things to make at least one person better off without making anyone worse off. What makes Pareto efficiency important is that almost everyone would agree that
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This lecture by Stiglitz is about how and why Pareto or near-Pareto improvement is hard to achieve‚ through his experience in Council of Economic Advisors for the United States government. First‚ Stiglitz writes about Adam Smith`s invisible hand theory as an explications of conditions under which market equilibrium will be Pareto efficient‚ and discusses about the importance of government intervention by writing that in presence of imperfect information or incomplete market‚ there will always be
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In most countries around the world‚ the access of goods and control of land is typically based upon one’s gender‚ race‚ class‚ and ethnicity. The relationship that people establish with those around them play a major role in the access to resources that may be needed. In Michael Madison Walker’s article‚ “Negotiating Land and Authority in Central Mozambique” he discusses how social ties amongst citizens’ and gender influence property rights. According to Walker’s article‚ “Social relations
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"The social benefits of maintaining the supply of clean air will exceed the private benefits of doing so". A statement which nowadays we all know is true but to actually achieve it is another. As far as the market mechanism is concerned we can see through the different market approaches towards sustainability‚ an extension to private property rights‚ environmental charges and green taxes how the market can benefit the eradication of pollution however the problems and consequences of these mechanisms
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FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN ECONOMICS By: Ravisha Sodha INTRODUCTION: Field experiments occupy an important middle ground between laboratory experiments and naturally occurring field data. The underlying idea behind most field experiments is to make use of randomization in an environment that captures important characteristics of the real world. Distinct from traditional empirical economics‚ field experiments provide an advantage by permitting the researcher to create exogenous variation in the variables
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