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This text brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the US legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline
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monografia Rebiun19625228 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun19625228 m o d cr cnu---unuuu 130506s2013 ctu ob 001 0 eng d 9780300195071 0300195079 9780300175219 0300175213 NT eng pn NT YDXCP IDEBK E7B JSTOR AZU OCLCF CDX COO OCLCQ OCLCO EBLCP OCLCQ DEBSZ OCLCQ UKOUP OTZ MERUC OCLCQ UNAV 340/.11 23 The American illness Recurso electrónico] essays on the rule of law edited by F.H. Buckley New Haven Yale University Press 2013 New Haven New Haven Yale University Press Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia. online resource cr rdacarrier. EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice The rule of law in America / F.H. Buckley -- An exceptional nation? / F.H. Buckley -- Are Americans more litigious? : some quantitative evidence / J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric B. Rasmusen -- Lawyers as spam : congressional capture explains why U.S. lawyers exceed the optimum and their cost -- Stephen p. magee -- Regulation and litigation : complements or substitutes? / Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick -- Does product liability law make us safer? / W. Kip Viscusi -- American illness and comparative civil procedure / Daniel Jutras -- The proportionality principle and the amount in controversy / Peter B. Rutledge -- Allocation of discovery costs and the foundations of modern procedure / Martin H. Redish -- Does increased litigation increase justice in a second-best world? / Jeremy Kidd and Todd J. Zywicki -- A tamer tort law : the canada-u.s. divide / Michael Trebilcock and Paul-Erik Veel -- The expansion of modern U.S. tort law and its excesses / George L. Priest -- Regulation, taxation, and litigation / W. Kip Viscusi -- An English lawyer looks at American contract law / Michael Bridge -- Text versus context : the failure of the unitary law of contract interpretation / Robert E. Scott -- Exit and the American illness / Erin O'Hara O'Connor and Larry E. Ribstein -- The dramatic rise of consumer protection law / Joshua D. Wright and Eric Helland -- How American corporate and securities law drives business offshore / Stephen M. Bainbridge -- Corporate crime, overcriminalization, and the failure of American public morality / Jeffrey S. Parker -- The legacy of progressive thought : decline, not death, by a thousand cuts / Richard A. Epstein -- Overtaking / Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin -- The rule of law and China / Francis Fukuyama -- Reversing / F.H. Buckley This text brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the US legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline Forma de acceso: World Wide Web Buckley, F. H. Francis H.) 1948-) editor