Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law

Maxwell L. Stearns, University of Maryland School of Law
Todd Zywicki

Document Type: Book

Abstract

This is the only course book specifically designed to instruct law students in the discipline of public choice. The book provides a comprehensive, but nontechnical, overview of interest group theory, social choice theory, and game theory (along with elementary price theory), and ties these concepts to a wide range of topics in both public and private law. The book contains chapters devoted to each set of methodological tools and to specific institutional settings: legislatures, courts, executive branch (and bureaus), and constitutions.

Keywords:

public choice

Discipline(s)

Law

Recommended Citation

Maxwell L. Stearns and Todd J. Zywicki. Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law. St. Paul, MN, West, 2009.