Includes bibliographical references and index.

Law, economics and institutional complexity : an introduction / F. Cafaggi, A. Nicita and U. Pagano -- Complexity in law and economics -- Economics in the future of the law / T. Ulen -- Law and economics in historic perspective -- North -- Legal positions and institutional complementarities / U. Pagano -- Legislate today or wait until tomorrow? an investment approach to lawmaking / F. Parisi and N. Ghei -- Private orderings, efficiency and the role of the state -- The enforcement of contracts and the role of the state / A. Schwartz -- Minimal liberty and the "Coasean liberal" : setting boundaries and complementarities between the state and the market / A. Nicita and E. Savaglio -- Private orderings and intellectual property : what is it the best incentive system? / N. Gallini and S. Scotchmer -- Fairness and welfare : are they really competing values? / F. Denozza -- Contractual incompleteness and the nature of endogenous enforcement -- Costly contingent contracts : a failure of the coase theorem / Anderlini and L. Felli -- Game-theoretic solutions to endogenous contractual incompleteness / F. Farina -- Customary contracts / H. Peyton Young -- Group relations and industrial districts / A. Battistini -- Governance models and corporate ethics -- What is a corporation? the corporate personality controversy and comparative corporate governance / K. Iwai -- Fiduciary duties, models of firms and organizational theories in the context of relational interdependencies / F. Cafaggi -- Incomplete contracts and corporate ethics : a game theoretical model under fuzzy information / Sacconi.

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