Economics of Ancient Law

Edited by Geoffrey P. Miller, Stuyvesant Comfort Professor of Law, New York University, School of Law, US

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Geoffrey P. MillerPART IGENERAL APPROACHES 1. Richard A. Epstein (1997), ‘The Modern Uses of Ancient Law’2. Saul Levmore (1986), ‘Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law’3. Richard Posner (1983), ‘A Theory of Primitive Society, with Special Reference to Law’PART IILIABILITY SYSTEMS 4. Francesco Parisi and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (2004), ‘The Rise and Fall of Communal Liability in Ancient Law’5. Francesco Parisi (2001), ‘The Genesis of Liability in Ancient Law’6. Saul Levmore (1995), ‘Rethinking Group Responsibility and Strategic Threats in Biblical Texts and Modern Law’PART IIIFAMILY LAW 7. Maristella Botticini and Aloysius Siow (2003), ‘Why Dowries?’8. Rick Geddes and Paul J. Zak (2002), ‘The Rule of One-Third’PART IVLAND LAW 9. M.I. Finley (1953), ‘Land, Debt, and the Man of Property in Classical Athens’10. Robert C. Ellickson and Charles DiA. Thorland (1995), ‘Ancient Land Law: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel’11. Francesco Parisi (2004), ‘The Origins and Evolution of Property Rights Systems’PART VCRIMINAL LAW 12. James Lindgren (1996), ‘Why the Ancients May Not Have Needed a System of Criminal Law’13. Thomas J. Miceli and Kathleen Segerson (2007), ‘Punishing the Innocent along with the Guilty: The Economics of Individual versus Group Punishment’PART VICOMMERCIAL LAW 14. David Daube (1979), ‘Money and Justiciability’15. Geoffrey P. Miller (1993), ‘Contracts of Genesis’16. Geoffrey P. Miller (1993), ‘Ritual and Regulation: A Legal-Economic Interpretation of Selected Biblical Texts’PART VIIECONOMIC MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS 17. Peter Temin (2001), ‘A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire’18. Keith Sharfman (2007), ‘The Law and Economics of Hoarding’19. Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire (2006), ‘Law and the Rise of the Firm’PART VIIIBANKRUPTCY AND RISK 20. Robert J. Aumann (2003), ‘Risk Aversion in the Talmud’21. Robert J. Aumann and Michael Maschler (1985), ‘Game Theoretic Analysis of a Bankruptcy Problem from the Talmud’PART IXCONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW 22. Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen (2006), ‘The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece’23. Geoffrey P. Miller (1995), ‘J as Constitutionalist: A Political Interpretation of Exodus 17:8-16 and Related Texts’24. Adam S. Chodorow (2007), ‘Biblical Tax Systems and the Case for Progressive Taxation’