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This guide is designed to offer helpful resources on the subject of law and economics.  There are several pages to this guide, represented by the blue tabs across the top.  To navigate to the other pages of the guide, you can simply click on any of the blue tabs, or use the table of contents in the box below.

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Law and Economics

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Law and economics is "a discipline advocating the economic analysis of the law, whereby legal rules are subjected to a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether a change from one legal rule to another will increase or decrease allocative efficiency and social wealth." (Black's Law Dictionary 963 (9th ed. 2009))

This research guide is intended as a centralized tool for finding and accessing various materials pertaining to Law and Economics, including pertinent books in our collection, electronic access to journals on the subject, and a few web resources that may be of assistance.  You may also want to consult the last page of this guide for tips on tracking down books housed at other libraries and periodicals housed in various legal databases.