Background
Shavell, Steven M. was born on May 29, 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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Accident law, if properly designed, is capable of reducing the incidence of mishaps by making people act more cautiously. Scholarly writing on this branch of law traditionally has been concerned with examining the law for consistency with felt notions of right and duty. Since the 1960s, however, a group of legal scholars and economists have focused on identifying the effects of accident law on people's behavior. Steven Shavell's book is the definitive synthesis of research to date in this new field.
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What effects do laws have? Do individuals drive more cautiously, clear ice from sidewalks more diligently, and commit fewer crimes because of the threat of legal sanctions? Do corporations pollute less, market safer products, and obey contracts to avoid suit? And given the effects of laws, which are socially best? Such questions about the influence and desirability of laws have been investigated by legal scholars and economists in a new, rigorous, and systematic manner since the 1970s. Their approach, which is called economic, is widely considered to be intellectually compelling and to have revolutionized thinking about the law. In this book Steven Shavell provides an in-depth analysis and synthesis of the economic approach to the building blocks of our legal system, namely, property law, tort law, contract law, and criminal law. He also examines the litigation process as well as welfare economics and morality. Aimed at a broad audience, this book requires neither a legal background nor technical economics or mathematics to understand it. Because of its breadth, analytical clarity, and general accessibility, it is likely to serve as a definitive work in the economic analysis of law.
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By what criteria should public policy be evaluated? Fairness and justice? Or the welfare of individuals? Debate over this fundamental question has spanned the ages. Fairness versus Welfare poses a bold challenge to contemporary moral philosophy by showing that most moral principles conflict more sharply with welfare than is generally recognized. In particular, the authors demonstrate that all principles that are not based exclusively on welfare will sometimes favor policies under which literally everyone would be worse off. The book draws on the work of moral philosophers, economists, evolutionary and cognitive psychologists, and legal academics to scrutinize a number of particular subjects that have engaged legal scholars and moral philosophers. How can the deeply problematic nature of all nonwelfarist principles be reconciled with our moral instincts and intuitions that support them? The authors offer a fascinating explanation of the origins of our moral instincts and intuitions, developing ideas originally advanced by Hume and Sidgwick and more recently explored by psychologists and evolutionary theorists. Their analysis indicates that most moral principles that seem appealing, upon examination, have a functional explanation, one that does not justify their being accorded independent weight in the assessment of public policy. Fairness versus Welfare has profound implications for the theory and practice of policy analysis and has already generated considerable debate in academia.
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(This law school casebook was developed by a team of profe...)
This law school casebook was developed by a team of professors at Harvard Law School to introduce students with little or no quantitative background to the basic analytical techniques that attorneys need to master to represent their clients effectively. This casebook presents clear explanations of decision analysis, games and information, contracting, accounting, finance, microeconomics, economic analysis of the law, fundamentals of statistics, and multiple regression analysis. References and examples have been thoroughly updated for this 2d edition, and exposition of a number of key topics has been reworked to reflect insights gained from teaching these topics using the 1st edition to many hundreds of Harvard Law students over the past decade.
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Shavell, Steven M. was born on May 29, 1946 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
University of Michigan (Bachelor of Arts, 1968). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy, 1973). Harvard Law School (Liberal Arts Fellow, 1977-1978).
Lieutenant junior grade United States Public Health Service Centers for Disease Control, 1968—1970. Assistant professor economics Boston College, 1973—1974, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974—1979, associate professor, 1979—1980. Assistant professor law and economics Harvard Law School, 1980—1982, professor, since 1982, Samuel R. Rosenthal professor, since 2000, director John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, since 1985.
Visiting professor University Chicago Law School, 1984—1985, New York University Law School, 1999. Associate editor Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, since 1990. Board editors International Review Law and Economics, since 1987, Journal Law, Economics, and Organization, since 1989, Research in Law and Economics, since 1990, American Law and Economics Review, since 1999, Encyclopedia Law and Economics, since 1999.
Board advisors Center for Law, Economics, and Finance Institutions, Copenhagen Business School, since 2001. Board faculty advisors Journal Law, Economics, and Policy, since 2003.
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(This law school casebook was developed by a team of profe...)
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Fellow: Econometric Society. Member: American Law and Economics Association (board directors 1990-1994, president 2001-2002), American Academy Arts and Sciences.