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The Inefficiency Of Mens Rea, Claire Oakes Finkelstein

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A Liberal Theory Of Social Welfare: Fairness, Utility, And The Pareto Principle, Howard F. Chang

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Why The Successful Assassin Is More Wicked Than The Unseccessful One, Leo Katz

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Knowledge About Welfare: Legal Realism And The Separation Of Law And Economics, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

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The welfare state could not function without judgments about how well off its citizens are. For example, governments devise progressive income taxes, which are designed to capture more wealth from the well off and less from the impecunious. These policies presume an ability to take a manageable amount of information about an individual's income or assets and make judgments about her welfare. In fact, people do this all the time, mostly without thinking about the methodological problems involved.

The superficial casualness of our daily observations about welfare belies the state of the economic science of welfare measurement. Economists have attempted …

Changing Structure In The Practice Of Law, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

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The Possibility Of A Fair Paretian, Howard F. Chang

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Toward A Greener Gatt: Environmental Trade Measures And The Shrimp-Turtle Case, Howard F. Chang

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When The Rule Swallows The Exception, Claire Oakes Finkelstein

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