Reading List for Article Reviews

1. J. Cummins and S. Tennyson, "Controlling Automobile Insurance Costs," Journal of Economic Perspectives (Spring 1992), pp 95 - 115. [Dale King]
2. G. Priest, "The Modern Expansion of Tort Liability: Its Sources, Its Effects, and its Reform," Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 1991), pp 31 - 50.
3. P. Menell, "The Limitations of Legal Institutions for Addressing Environmental Risks," Journal of Economic Perspectives(Summer 1991), pp 93 - 113.
4. P. Danzon, "Liability for Medical Practice,"Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 1991), pp 51 - 69.
5. D. Kenkel, "Prohibition versus Taxation: Reconsidering the Legal Drinking Age," Contemporary Economic Policy (July 1993), pp 48 - 57. [Will Clark]
6. R. Ohsfeldt and S. Gohmann, "Do Parental Involvement Laws Reduce Adolescent Abortion Rates? " Contemporary Economic Policy (April 1994), pp 65 - 76.
7. D. Lambert, "Grazing on Public Rangelands: A Problem in Property Rights," Contemporary Economic Policy (April 1995), pp 119 - 128.
8. K. Viscusi, "Product and Occupational Liability," Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 1991), pp 71 - 91.
9. D. Friedman, W. Landes, and R. Posner, "Some Economics of Trade Secret Laws," Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1991), pp 61 - 72. [Greg Sluka]
10. R. Freeman, "Why Do So Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About It? " Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1996), pp 25 - 42.
11. I. Ehrlich, "Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses," Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1996), pp 43 - 67.
12. *J. Lott and R. Roberts, "Why Comply: One-Sided Enforcement of Price Controls and Victimless Crime Laws," Journal of Legal Studies (June 1989), pp 403 - 414.
13. *S. Happel and M. Jennings, "The Folly of Anti-Scalping Laws," The Cato Journal (Spring/Summer 1995), pp 65 - 80. Available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj15n1-4.html [Sarah Clapp]
14. *G. Anderson and A. Gifford Jr., "Order Out of Anarchy: The International Law of War," The Cato Journal (Spring/Summer 1995), pp 25 - 38. Available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj15n1-2.html
15. *D. Boudreaux, "A Modest Proposal to Deregulate Infant Adoptions," The Cato Journal (Spring/Summer 1995), pp 117 - 135. Available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj15n1-7.html
16. *B. Benson, "An Institutional Explanation for Corruption of Criminal Justice Officials," The Cato Journal (Spring/Summer 1988), pp 139 - 164.
17. T. Kinoshita, "Lawyer's Market Regulation in Japan," Contemporary Economic Policy (April 2000), pp 181 - 193.
18. S. Markowitz and M. Grossman, "Alcohol Regulation and Domestic Violence Towards Children," Contemporary Economic Policy (July 1998), pp 309 - 320.
19. K. Weibe, A. Tegene, and B. Kuhn, "Managing Public and Private Land Through Partial Interests," Contemporary Economic Policy (April 1997), pp 35 - 43.
20. B. Goff, W. Shughart, and R. Tollison, "Batter Up! Moral Hazard and the Effects of the Designated Hitter Rule on Hit Batsman," Economic Inquiry (July 1997), pp 555 - 561. You will also want to see a series of 3 short articles in the October 1998 issue of Economic Inquiry that respond to this article.
21. D. Friedman, "Standards as Intellectual Property: An Economic Approach," University of Dayton Law Review, (Spring 1994) pp 1109-1129. Available online at www.best.com/~ddfr/Academic/Standards/Standards.html. [Karen Johnson]
22. C. Barbour and W. Shughart, "Legal Institutions and Abortion Rates in Mississippi," Cato Journal (Spring/Summer 1998) pp 119 - 129. Available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj18n1-9.pdf. [Matt Parker]
23. Or any other article in the Journal of Law & Economics subject to my approval.

The articles marked with * are available from the instructor, otherwise, all the other articles are available in Dawes. Please see me if these articles interest you.

Note that some of the online papers are in PDF format and require the (free) Acrobat Reader to view them.