Law's limits : the rule of law and the supply and demand of rights / Neil K Komesar.

Cambridge : Cambridge Univ Pr, 2001.

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Right of property -- United States.

Land use -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Rule of law -- United States.

Law -- Methodology.

Part I. The Basic framework: 1. Supply and demand

2. The Spectrum of rights

3. The Supply side - the little engine of law and rights

Part II. Land use and rights: 4. Zoning and its discontents - political malfunction and the demand for rights

5. Just compensation - the problems of judicial pricing

6. High stakes players and hidden markets

Part III. Law's laws: 7. Theories of property - from Coase to communitarianism

8. Numbers, complexity and the rule of law

9. Changes.

Includes index.

0521000866

x, 260 p.