The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521809339 ISBN 13: 9780521809337

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2002

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The role of 'incentives' is considered in this economic approach to family law. The book discusses the possible adverse consequences emanating from faulty legal design, while demonstrating that good family law should provide incentives for consistent behavior. This will interest lawyers, policy-makers and economists concerned with family law.

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What sort of contract is marriage? What does it offer the parties? What are the difficulties of enforcement, and the result of failed effective enforcement? This book takes an economic approach to marriage and divorce, considering the key role of 'incentives' in family law: it highlights the possible adverse consequences emanating from faulty legal design, while demonstrating that good family law should provide incentives for consistent and honest behavior. Economists, specialists in the economic analysis of law, and academic lawyers discuss recent advances in specialist work on marriage, cohabitation, and divorce. Chapters are grouped around four topics: the contractual perspectives on marriage commitment; the regulatory framework surrounding divorce; bargaining and commitment issues relating to marriage and near-marriage arrangements; and finally empirical work, which focuses on the impact of more liberal divorce laws. This important new study will be of considerable interest to lawyers, policy-makers and economists concerned with family law.

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Law and economics marriage divorce hb editado por Cambridge

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521809339
• ISBN 13: 9780521809337
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
• Herausgeber: Dnes Antony W., Rowthorn Robert