TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller, Geoffrey P. ed.
TI  - Economics of ancient law
SN  - 9781848444331
U1  - 340.53 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - UK
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - 	 Law, Ancient -- Economic aspects.
KW  - Law and economics
N1  - 	The modern uses of ancient law / Richard A. Epstein --
Rethinking comparative law : variety and uniformity in ancient and modern tort law / Saul Levmore --
A theory of primitive society, with special reference to law / Richard A. Posner --
The rise and fall of communal liability in ancient law / Francesco Parisi and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci --
The genesis of liability in ancient law / Francesco Parisi --
Rethinking group responsibility and strategic threats in biblical texts and modern law / Saul Levmore --
Why dowries? / Maristella Botticini and Aloysius Siow --
The rule of one-third / Rick Geddes and Paul J. Zak --
Land, debt, and the man of property in classical Athens / M.I. Finley --
Ancient land law : Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel / Robert C. Ellickson and Charles DiA. Thorland --
The origins and evolution of property rights systems / Francesco Parisi --
Why the ancients may not have needed a system of criminal law / James Lindgren --
Punishing the innocent along with the guilty : the economics of individual versus group punishment / Thomas J. Miceli and Kathleen Segerson --
Money and justiciability / David Daube --
Contracts of Genesis / Geoffrey P. Miller --
Ritual and regulation : a legal economic interpretation of selected Biblical texts / Geoffrey P. Miller --
A market economy in the early Roman Empire / Peter Temin --
The law and economics of hoarding / Keith Sharfman --
Law and the rise of the firm / Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire --
Risk aversion in the Talmud / Robert J. Aumann --
Game theoretic analysis of a bankruptcy problem from the Talmud / Robert J. Aumann and Michael Maschler --
The origins of democracy : a model with application to ancient Greece / Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen --
J as constitutionalist : a political interpretation of Exodus 17:8-16 and related texts / Geoffrey P. Miller --
Biblical tax systems and the case for progressive taxation / Adam S. Chodorow
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