"This book offers a theory of law and economics focused on change over time, aimed at avoiding systemic risks, and implemented through an analysis of law's economic incentives and how people respond to them"--

Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs and open source software are hotly debated and yet poorly understood. In particular, there is a great need for sound economic theorizing on such issues. There is also a need for a clear and concise exposition of the state-of-the-art of the economics of property rights. This book fulfils these various needs.

A study showing that environmentally beneficial technical innovation would be more effective than economic efficiency as the organizing principle of environmental public policy.

The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law proposes an alternative to static efficiency-based analysis and policy prescription, focusing primarily upon the environmental law example. It argues for an approach that takes change over time seriously. In particular, an economic dynamic exists that tends to diminish environmental quality over time, principally through increased consumption and population growth. For that reason environmental policy should compensate for these tendencies by encouraging pro-environmental innovation, which the free market often fails to foster. The literature has blurred attention to the innovation problem by failing to acknowledge the tension between fostering innovation beneficial for the long-term and regulation aimed at short term efficiency. Environmental policy cannot foster innovation by treating each regulatory decision as a separate transaction governed by principles of allocative efficiency. Rather, environmental policy-makers should aim to address this larger picture by securing a sufficient number of environmentally positive decisions to countervail numerous private decisions that tend to degrade the environment. This book employs an institutional economic framework, placing some emphasis on Douglas North's idea of adaptive efficiency, to analyze how to think about the environmental law's economic dynamic. It critiques cost-benefit analysis, emissions trading, and free trade-based restraints on environmental protection. It uses the free market as a model, not of efficiency, but of a dynamic encouraging innovation and adaptation in the face of uncertainty. And it urges consideration of a variety of reforms based on economic dynamic analysis. This book contends that its economic dynamic theory offers a viable alternative to policy prescription based on a neoclassical economic framework in a variety of areas, and includes an application of the theory to the law of regulated industries.

"In this provocative book Calixto Salomäao Filho builds a strong case for why economic power cannot be considered a mere market phenomenon. Taking the forgotten realities and effects of these power structures into account, his comprehensive legal analysis persuasively argues the need for a new theory of economic power. The book begins with a discussion of the insufficiency of antitrust concepts and instruments. The author provides an economic history of monopolistic colonial systems and its effect on thedevelopment process, and offers an alternate paradigm of legal structuralism and social organization. He goes on to explore the creation of economic power structures with a cogent discussion of market power, legal structures and the dominance of common pool resources. An examination of the dynamics and behavior of power structures follows, with particular attention paid to exclusion and collusion, legal monopolies and the exploitation of natural resources. The author shows clearly how the negative effects of economic power structures directly impact the social and economic development of societies. This new legal theory, with its basis in the realities of economic structures, will prove a powerful alternative to the traditional market rationality paradigm. As such it will be of great interest to students and scholars of law and economics, development and antitrust"--Provided by publisher.

Leading scholars from law, political science and economics explore the challenges in designing efficient markets in both private and public sector.

This book offers a theory of law and economics focused on change over time and aimed at avoiding systemic risks.

The new science of chaos was discovered in the analysis of weather. According to the author, economics is equally unpredictable. This book explores the way in which chaos may be used for economic analysis. The author applies the new insights of chaotic dynamics to economics. Given the unpredictable behaviour of economies, this new discipline promises much enlightenment. It has always been assumed that the highly irregular behaviour of economic time series was the consequence of extra-economic disturbances such as political decisions, trade unions, the weather, and foreign trade. Now it has become clear that there can be patterns which explain this confusing behaviour. - ;Capitalism as creative, chaotic evolution by structural change; Classical dynamics: the corn economy; The von Neumann model as a chaotic attractor; Growing in short and long waves; The structural and dynamical instability of the modern economy; An analysis of high and low growth rates; Irregular waves of growth from structural innovation; Dynamical control of economic waves by fiscal policy; A fresh look at traditional cycle models; Chaotic aperiodic behaviour from forced oscillators; Further reading; Index -

The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs which cover progresses in fractional calculus research in mathematics and applications in physics, mechanics, engineering and biology etc. Methodological aspects e.g., theory, modeling and computational methods are presented from mathematical point of view, and emphases are placed in computer simulation, analysis, design and control of application-oriented issues in various scientific disciplines. It is designed for mathematicians, and researchers using fractional calculus as a tool in the field of physics, mechanics, engineering and biology. Contributions which are interdisciplinary and which stimulate further research at the crossroads of sciences and engineering are particularly welcomed. Editor-in-chief: Changpin Li, Shanghai University, China Editorial Board: Virginia Kiryakova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Francesco Mainardi, University of Bologna, Italy Dragan Spasic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Bruce Ian Henry, University of New South Wales, Australia YangQuan Chen, University of California, Merced, USA Please submit book proposals to Leonardo Milla, leonardo.milla@degruyter.com

This book sheds new light on the economic development of Taiwan, examining how entrepreneurs identify and pursue profit opportunities, and showing how their efforts have enhanced Taiwan’s economic dynamics.