The Future of Law and Economics: Essays in Reform and Recollection

摘要

Guido Calabresi is a distinguished judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He was dean at Yale Law School and, before that, a law professor at Yale best known for his important early contributions to law and economics. He was one of the first academics to apply economic principles to tort law. He also wrote a highly influential article that used Ronald Coase's ideas to investigate why the law sometimes protects property rights by banning people from infringing on them ("property rules"), while at other times allowing people to violate property rights as long as they pay the market price of the infringement ("liability rules").