Nicholas L. Georgakopoulos

Principles and Methods of Law and Economics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an introductory book that targets the reader who has the ambition to apply economic analysis but may be missing a technical introduction to its mathematical techniques or seeks a structured elaboration of its philosophical principles. The book juxtaposes economic analysis with moral philosophy, political theory, egalitarianism, and other methodological principles and then passes to the details of methods such as model-building, derivatives, differential equations, statistical tests, and the use of computer programs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780521826815
• ISBN-10: 0521826810
• Artikelnr.: 15103988

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Georgakopoulos is Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law. He received his master's and doctorate from Harvard Law School, where he specialized in finance and the regulation of financial markets. His publications are cited prominently, including citations by the US Supreme Court and the Securities Exchange Commission.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: innovation in legal thinking; Part I. Principles: 1. From formal logic to normative reasoning; 2. Social welfare versus moral philosophy; 3. From political philosophy to game theory; 4. The importance of distribution of wealth; 5. Coase and law's irrelevance; 6. More failures of coasean irrelevance; Part II. Methods: 7. Mathematical modelling; 8. Confronting uncertainty: basic probability theory; 9. Advanced probability: distributions as the shape of randomness; 10. How to price uncertainty: finance; 11. Finance and probability: options and derivatives; 12. Using spreadsheets; 13. Statistics; 14. Conclusion: importing methodological innovations.

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Introduction: innovation in legal thinking
Part I. Principles: 1. From formal logic to normative reasoning
2. Social welfare versus moral philosophy
3. From political philosophy to game theory
4. The importance of distribution of wealth
5. Coase and law's irrelevance
6. More failures of coasean irrelevance
Part II. Methods: 7. Mathematical modelling
8. Confronting uncertainty: basic probability theory
9. Advanced probability: distributions as the shape of randomness
10. How to price uncertainty: finance
11. Finance and probability: options and derivatives
12. Using spreadsheets
13. Statistics
14. Conclusion: importing methodological innovations.

Rezensionen

?The merits of this volume by Professor Georgakopolos are many. The chapters are clearly organized and well written. His explications of statistical techniques and quantitative argumentation are very clear and should be easy for students, even those with no background in economics or statistics, to follow.?
Daniel H. Cole, Indiana University School of Law