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  • Medical Malpractice Litigation

    How It Works, Why Tort Reform Hasn't Helped

    by Bernard S. Black, David A. Hyman, Myungho Paik, William M. Sage, Charles Silver ...
    "Drawing on an unusually rich trove of data, the authors have refuted more politically convenient myths in one book than most academics do in a lifetime."—Nicholas Bagley, professor of law, University of Michigan Law School"Synthesizing decades of their own and others’ research on medical liability, the authors unravel what we know and don’t know about our medical malpractice system, why neither ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Tax-Free Savings Accounts

    A Guide To Tfa's And How They Make You Rich

    by Gordon Pape ...
    This may be of the most important little investment book you'll ever read! Financial expert Gordon Pape explains the new Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)—the powerful new personal savings vehicle for Canadians – and provides a range of strategies that you can use to add thousands of tax-exempt dollars to your personal wealth. As of January, 2009, everyone 18 and older can contribute to a TFSA and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Getting Off Track

    How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis

    by John B. Taylor ...
    In this concise volume, leading economist John B. Taylor offers empirical research to explain what caused the current financial crisis, what prolonged it, and what dramatically worsened it more than a year after it began. The evidence he presents strongly suggests that specific government actions and interventions are largely to blame and that any future government interventions must be based on a ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law

    Income Tax Law

    by Edward McCaffery ...
    Series series Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law
    In The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Income Tax Law, Edward McCaffery presents an accessible introduction to the major topics in the field of federal income taxation, such as income, deductions, and recognition of gains and losses. After discussing central rules and doctrines individually, Edward McCaffery offers a very sophisticated yet clear explanation of the interplay among them, carefully ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Valuing Life

    Humanizing the Regulatory State

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    "Clear explanations and concrete examples of how the behavioral orientation in economics can contribute to the world of cost/benefit policy formulation." — ChoiceThe White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States' regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, New York Times–bestselling author and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Insurance and Behavioral Economics

    Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry

    by Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly, Stacey McMorrow ...
    This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry decision makers involved in selling, buying and regulation. It compares their actions to those predicted by benchmark models of choice derived from classical economic theory. Where actual choices stray from predictions, the behavior is considered to be anomalous. Howard C. Kunreuther, Mark Pauly and Stacey McMorrow ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • When Lawyers Screw Up

    Improving Access to Justice for Legal Malpractice Victims

    by Herbert Kritzer, Neil Vidmar ...
    Unhappy clients bring thousands of legal malpractice claims every year, against mega law firms and solo practitioners, for simple errors or egregious misconduct, and for losses than can reach $100 million or more. This in an industry, legal services, generating nearly $300 billion a year in revenue and touching every facet of American society. Yet, scant if any scholarly attention has been paid to ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Issues in Law and Economics

    by Harold Winter ...
    Is file-sharing destroying the music industry? Should the courts encourage breach of contract? Does the threat of malpractice lawsuits cause doctors to provide too much medical care? Do judges discriminate when sentencing? With Issues in Law and Economics, Harold Winter takes readers through these and other recent and controversial questions. In an accessible and engaging manner, Winter shows ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Insider Trading

    Law, Ethics, and Reform

    by John P. Anderson ...
    As long as insider trading has existed, people have been fixated on it. Newspapers give it front page coverage. Cult movies romanticize it. Politicians make or break careers by pillorying, enforcing, and sometimes engaging in it. But, oddly, no one seems to know what's really wrong with insider trading, or - because Congress has never defined it - exactly what it is. This confluence of vehemence ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Aging and Social Expenditure in the Major Industrial Countries, 1980-2025

    by Edgardo Mr. Ruggiero, Peter Mr. Heller, Menachem Mr. Katz, Robert Mr. Feldman, Richard Mr. Hemming, Peter Mr. Kohnert, Ziba Farhadian, Donogh Mr. McDonald, Ahsan Mansur, Bernard Mr. Nivollet ...
    Series Book 47 - Occasional Papers
    Most of the seven major industrial countries are now experiencing significant changes in their demographic structure. A persistent pattern of declining fertility and improving life expectancy has created major segments of the population that are already relatively aged or will become so in the near future. This paper examines the impact of prospective demographic trends on the level and structure ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Economic Approach to Law, Third Edition

    by Thomas J. Miceli ...
    Master teacher Thomas J. Miceli provides an introduction to law and economics that reveals how economic principles can explain the structure of the law and make it more efficient.The third edition of this seminal textbook is thoroughly updated to include recent cases and the latest scholarship, with particular attention paid to torts, contracts, property rights, and the economics of crime. A new ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Broke

    How Debt Bankrupts the Middle Class

    Edited by Katherine Porter ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    About 1.5 million households filed bankruptcy in the last year, making bankruptcy as common as college graduation and divorce. The recession has pushed more and more families into financial collapse—with unemployment, declines in retirement wealth, and falling house values destabilizing the American middle class. Broke explores the consequences of this unprecedented growth in consumer debt and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD