Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics

Mark D. White is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he teaches courses in the intersections of economics, philosophy, and law. He is also on the economics faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, he taught at Miami University Hamilton and the University of Cincinnati. His other edited books include Economics and the Mind (with Barbara Montero, 2007), The Thief of Time: Philosophical Perspectives on Procrastination (with Chrisoula Andreou, forthcoming), Batman and Philosophy (with Robert Arp, 2008), and Watchmen and Philosophy (2009). He is associate editor of the Forum for Social Economics, serves on the editorial board of Ethique et Economique/Ethics and Economics, and is editing a special issue of the Review of Social Economy on ethics and economics (due 2009). He has published articles in Southern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economics Bulletin, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, European Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Methodology, Review of Social Economy, Review of Political Economy, Forum for Social Economics, Journal of Socio-Economics, and Journal of Private Enterprise. He also has published book chapters in volumes devoted to law and economics, ethics and economics, and social economics, as well as numerous volumes in the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series. He is very active in organizing conference sessions for such organizations as the Eastern Economic Association, the Association for Social Economics, the International Network for Economic Method, the History of Economics Society, and the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics. He has been a member of the organizing committee for the Eastern Economic Association annual meetings since 2003 and was a founding member of the program committee for the Eastern Study Group of the North American Ka

"Professor White does a real service by gathering these works into a single volume ... [He] has advanced the discourse in this lively field. His collection offers a fine law and economics primer, framing the arguments and leaving the reader better equipped to understand the theoretical underpinnings of the difficult accommodations that continue to be made in a world of scarcity." - Michael C. Macchiarola, The Law and Politics Book Review

• Part I. The Role and Use of Economics in Legal Studies: 1. Modeling courts Lewis A. Kornhauser; 2. Is there a method to the madness? Why creative and counterintuitive solutions are counterproductive Michael B. Dorff and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan; 3. Functional law and economics Jonathan Klick and Francesco Parisi; 4. Legal fictionalism and the economics of normativity Horacio Spector; Part II. Efficiency: 5. Efficiency, practices, and the moral point of view: limits of economic interpretations of law Mark Tunick; 6. Numeraire illusion: the final demise of the Kaldor-Hicks principle David Ellerman; 7. Justice, mercy and efficiency Sarah Holtman; Part III. Rationality and the Law: 8. Bounded rationality and legal scholarship Matthew D. Adler; 9. Emotional reactions to law and economics, market metaphors, and rationality rhetoric Peter H. Huang; 10. Pluralism, intransitivity, incoherence William A. Edmundson; Part IV. Values and Ethics in Civil and Criminal Law: 11. Law and economics and explanation in contract law Brian H. Bix; 12. Welfare, autonomy, and contractual freedom Guido Pincione; 13. Efficiency, fairness, and the economic analysis of tort law Mark A. Geistfeld; 14. Retributivism in a world of scarcity Mark D. White.