Economics, Law and Individual Rights

✍ Scribed by Hugo M. Mialon, Paul H. Rubin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 448
• Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is the first book to examine individual rights from an economic perspective, collecting together leading articles in this emerging area of interest and showing the vibrant and expanding scholarship that relates them. Areas covered include - The implications of constitutional protections of individual rights and freedoms, including freedom of speech and of the press, - The right to bear arms, - The right against unreasonable searches, - The right against self-incrimination, - The right to trial by jury, - The right against cruel and unusual punishment, including capital punishment.The focus of these papers is both theoretical and empirical, examining how economics can illuminate the entire sequence of crime and punishment, from the decision to commit a crime, to police methods for apprehending and arresting criminals, to the rules used in trials to the scope of punishment for the convicted.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 The economics of the First Amendment: The market for goods and the market for ideas......Page 26
3 An economic analysis of the law of false advertising......Page 35
4 Freedom of speech vs. efficient regulation in markets for ideas......Page 61
5 A free press is bad news for corruption......Page 84
6 The market for news......Page 107
7 The impact of gun laws: A model of crime and self-defense......Page 140
8 Crime, deterrence, and right-to-carry concealed handguns......Page 146
9 The effect of concealed handgun laws on crime: Beyond the dummy variables......Page 218
10 Effects of criminal procedure on crime rates: Mapping out the consequences of the exclusionary rule......Page 239
11 An economic theory of the Fifth Amendment......Page 265
12 The effects of a right to silence......Page 288
13 Noisy juries and the choice of trial mode in a sequential signalling game: Theory and evidence......Page 320
14 Runaway judges? Selection effects and the jury......Page 345
15 Reasonable doubt and the optimal magnitude of fine: Should the penalty fit the crime?......Page 372
16 The deterrent effect of capital punishment: A question of life and death......Page 387
17 Does capital punishment have a deterrent effect?: New evidence from postmoratorium panel data......Page 415
Index......Page 444