ABSTRACT
Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs and open source software are hotly debated and yet poorly understood. In particular, there is a great need for sound economic theorizing on such issues.
There is also a need for a clear and concise exposition of the state-of-the-art of the economics of property rights. This book fulfils these various needs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |74 pages
Property rights and law and economics theory
part |63 pages
An old bottle for new wines?
part |71 pages
Shadows and lights
chapter |21 pages
Intellectual property rights and judge-made law
An economic analysis of the production and diffusion of precedent
chapter |7 pages
Failing property rights – the problem of sleeping owners in the city
A preliminary analysis of one aspect of the German unification treaty
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