This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular and authoritative reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all the significant issues, and breaks new ground by bringing together widely dispersed yet theoretically congruent ideas.Following a comprehensive introduction by the editor, the renowned contributors look in detail at several critical areas including:






fundamentals of the law and economics approach


private law and economics


public law and economics


labour law and economics


regulation, taxation and public enterprise


dispute resolution


different sources of the law


economic analysis of a legal problem


classical authors in law and economics.


Students and scholars interested in a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the field of law and economics will find this volume to be a unique and welcome resource. The Companion will also have a broad appeal amongst industrial economists and historians of economic thought.