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Introduction 3 1. What Does Economics Have to Do with Law? 8 2.Efficiency and All that 18 3. What's Wrong with the World, Part 1 28 4.What's Wrong with the World, Part 2 36 5. Defining and Enforcing Rights:Property, Liability, and Spaghetti 47 6. Of Burning Houses and ExplodingCoke Bottles 63 7. Coin Flips and Car Crashes: Ex Post versus Ex Ante 74 8.Gaines, Bargains, Bluffs, and Other Really Hard Stuff 84 9. As Much as YourLife Is Worth 95 Intermezzo. The American Legal System in Brief 103 10.Mine, Throe, and Ours: The Economics of Property Law 112 11. Clouds andBarbed Wire: The Economics of Intellectual Property 128 12. The Economics ofContract 145 13. Marriage, Sex, and Babies 171 14. Tort Law 189 15.Criminal Law 223 16. Antitrust 244 17. Other Paths 263 18. The Crime/TortPuzzle 281 19. Is the Common Law Efficient? 297 Epilogue 309 Index 319