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Richard S. Markovits

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What’S The Matter With Welfare Economics?, Richard S. Markovits Jan 2015

What’S The Matter With Welfare Economics?, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

Welfare Economics is the branch of economics that focuses on economic efficiency. In my judgment, Welfare Economics and its applied sub-fields such as Environmental Economics and Public Finance are the branches of economics that are most relevant to legal practitioners and academics. This Article criticizes (1) the ways in which welfare economists define the field’s central concept—the impact of a non-government or government choice (or natural event) or set of Pareto imperfections on economic efficiency, (2) the protocol welfare economists use to predict or post-dict the impact of any choice or set of Pareto imperfections on economic efficiency, (3) the …


Free Markets: What, Why, When, Why Not, And What To Do About It, Richard S. Markovits Jan 2015

Free Markets: What, Why, When, Why Not, And What To Do About It, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

This Article analyzes the politically-salient claim that “free market systems of resource allocation” will produce optimal social outcomes in that pure “free market” resource-allocation systems will either maximize economic efficiency or be more economically efficient than any alternative system would be and will generate a morally-optimal distribution of income by causing people to be paid “what they produce.” The Article begins by pointing out that, contrary to the claims of its supporters, any “free market” system of resource allocation presupposes a great deal of government regulation to define and protect the private property-rights that are such systems’ foundation. The Article …


A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits May 2012

A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits Jul 2011

Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits Jul 2011

A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits May 2011

Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits May 2011

A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits Mar 2011

Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


A Distortion Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits Mar 2011

A Distortion Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits Aug 2010

Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits Aug 2010

A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits Aug 2010

Tort-Related Risk Costs And The Hand Formula For Negligence, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, And The Economically Efficient Approach For Courts To Take To Marine-Salvage Cases: A Positive Analysis And Related Critique Of Landes And Posner’S Classic Study, Richard S. Markovits Aug 2010

Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, And The Economically Efficient Approach For Courts To Take To Marine-Salvage Cases: A Positive Analysis And Related Critique Of Landes And Posner’S Classic Study, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, And The Economically Efficient Approach For Courts To Take To Marine-Salvage Cases: A Positive Analysis And Related Critique Of Landes And Posner’S Classic Study, Richard S. Markovits Aug 2010

Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, And The Economically Efficient Approach For Courts To Take To Marine-Salvage Cases: A Positive Analysis And Related Critique Of Landes And Posner’S Classic Study, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Risk Costs And The First-Best-Allocative-Efficiency Of Strict Liability, Of Various "Coverage-Enhanced" Negligence Doctrines That Incorporate Either The Traditional Hand Formula For Negligence Or Some Variant Of That Formula, And Of Our Current Damage And Court-Fee Rules: A Primarily Nearly-First-Best Analysis, Richard S. Markovits Feb 2009

Risk Costs And The First-Best-Allocative-Efficiency Of Strict Liability, Of Various "Coverage-Enhanced" Negligence Doctrines That Incorporate Either The Traditional Hand Formula For Negligence Or Some Variant Of That Formula, And Of Our Current Damage And Court-Fee Rules: A Primarily Nearly-First-Best Analysis, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits Feb 2009

A Distortion-Analysis Protocol For Economic-Efficiency Analysis: A Third-Best-Economically-Efficient Response To The General Theory Of Second Best, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.


Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, And The Economically Efficient Approach For Courts To Take To Accident Cases: A Marine-Salvage Example And Related Critique Of Landes And Posner’S Classic Study, Richard S. Markovits Feb 2009

Background (Fixed-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, Foreground (Variable-Cost) Avoidance-Choices, And The Economically Efficient Approach For Courts To Take To Accident Cases: A Marine-Salvage Example And Related Critique Of Landes And Posner’S Classic Study, Richard S. Markovits

Richard S. Markovits

No abstract provided.