Environmental Law and Economics, Volumes I and II: Volume I: Private Law and Property Rights; Volume II: Pollution, Property and Public Law

The regulation of environmental pollution has long been a serious subject of study for scholars of economic analysis of law. This two volume collection explores central issues in the relationship between these two topics. It includes material on private law and property rights, presenting a critique of market failure and asking questions about the role of tort law remedies in regulating the environment. It is concerned not only with the remedies as such, but also with the impact of the comm...