Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

1. A Political History of Modern Greece 1821–2018

   • Aristides Hatzis

2. Absolute Priority

   • Alexander Dilger

3. Abuse of Dominance

   • Pinar Akman

4. Access to Justice

   • David Allen Larson

5. Act-Based Sanctions

   • Marie Obidzinski

6. Administrative Corruption

   • Maria De Benedetto

7. Administrative Courts

   • Sofia Amaral-Garcia

8. Administrative Law

   • Giulio Napolitano

9. Administrative Procedure

   • Mitja Kovac

10. Adoption

    • Martha M. Ertman

11. Alcohol Prohibition

    • Nicholas A. Snow

12. Alimony

    • Cécile Bourreau-Dubois, Myriam Doriat-Duban

13. Alternative Dispute Resolution

    • Nathalie Chappe

14. Altruism

    • Sophie Harnay

15. Anarchy

    • Peter T. Leeson

16. Anticommons, Tragedy of the

    • Qianwei Ying

17. Antidumping

    • Arianna Ciabattoni, Roberto Ippoliti

18. Antitrust Populism: Practice

    • Aurelien Portuese

19. Antitrust Populism: Theory

    • Aurelien Portuese

20. Arrow Theorem

    • Pierre Bernhard, Marc Deschamps

Law and Economics deals with the economic analysis of legal relations, legal provisions, laws and regulations and is a research field which has a long tradition in economics. It was lost after the expulsion of some of the leading economists from Germany during 1933 to 1938, but then revived in Chicago.  Both the subject of Law of Economics and the need for a concise Encyclopedia is particularly relevant in Europe today.  Currently in the European Union there are several different legal cultures: the Anglo-Saxon legal framework, the German legal framework, which for example also includes Greece, and the Roman legal family—three jurisdictions which have to be covered with one and the same theory. In the EU, the task of the European Commission to interact with the various European jurisdictions means different legal cultures collaborating and some degree of harmonization is necessary. The result is an immediate need, if only for the science, to show how a given problem is solved in each legal tradition and jurisdiction. This Encyclopedia provides both a common language and precise definitions in the field, which will be useful in the future to avoid misunderstandings during harmonization of EU Law

• Montpellier, France

  Alain Marciano

• Dept DiGSPES, Univ del Piemonte Orientale Dept DiGSPES, Alessandria, Italy

  Giovanni Battista Ramello

Alain Marciano is associate professor at the University of Montpellier. His research bears on formal and informal norms (as mechanisms of coordination) and on constitutions (constitutional law and economics). He is also interested in the history and methodology of law and economics. He has edited many books in law and economics, and published a reader in law and economics. He has published articles in different journals (International Review of Law and Economics, Public Choice, Constitutional Political Economy, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Law and Contemporary Problems, the Journal of Institutional Economics, History of Political Economy, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, the European Journal of History of Economic Thought, the Journal of Economic Methodology). He co-edits, with Juergen Backhaus and Giovanni Ramello, of the European Journal of Law and Economics.