Law’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters by David D. Friedman

Princeton University Press • 2000 • 329 pages • $29.95
Law and economics, or the economic analysis of law, is a relatively new discipline. It was launched in the late 1950s and early 1960s and has grown in importance and in the number of its practitioners ever since. It uses key principles of economics—such as self-interest, [...]