Add to ORKGThis Essay offers a behavioral economic analysis of redistributive legal rules. Redistributive legal rules are rules chosen for their effects in shifting wealth from high-income to low-income individuals(progressive redistribution). The desirability of such rules has been the subject of intense debate within the legal community. Many law and economics scholars have urged that legal rules be chosen solely with an eye towards Kaldor-Hicks efficiency (which I will call simply efficiency for the remainder of this Essay); these scholars often urge that distributional considerations be addressed (if they are to be addressed at all) exclusively through the tax and welfare systems. On this view, distributive goals do not provide a basis for choos...
This article examines the law and economics of behavioral regulation (“nudging”), which governments ...
This Article contends that the government should consider – rather than ignore – distributional cons...
“Redistribution is accomplished more efficiently through the income tax than through the use of lega...
Behavioral law and economics --the general topic of this Symposium-seeks to bring together behavior...
From the beginning of the law and economics movement, normative legal economists have focused almost...
Bankruptcy has been a fertile ground for the economic analysis of law. A significant portion of bank...
Should legal rules be used to redistribute income? Or should income taxation be the exclusive means ...
A number of prominent advocates of applying behavioral economics to the law make the claim that beha...
The debate over whether legal rules should be used to redistribute resources in society or whether r...
This Note develops a framework for understanding when policymakers should use equity-informed legal ...
Kaplow and Shavell (1994) show that legal rules should not be made contingent upon the income (wealt...
Economic analysis of law usually proceeds under the assumptions of neoclassical economics. But empir...
The emergence of the modern law and economics analysis generally is dated to the early 1960s with th...
Behavioral economic analysis of law presents an important challenge to conventional law and economic...
Rules which redistribute wealth make some people better off at the expense of other people; they imp...
This article examines the law and economics of behavioral regulation (“nudging”), which governments ...
This Article contends that the government should consider – rather than ignore – distributional cons...
“Redistribution is accomplished more efficiently through the income tax than through the use of lega...
Behavioral law and economics --the general topic of this Symposium-seeks to bring together behavior...
From the beginning of the law and economics movement, normative legal economists have focused almost...
Bankruptcy has been a fertile ground for the economic analysis of law. A significant portion of bank...
Should legal rules be used to redistribute income? Or should income taxation be the exclusive means ...
A number of prominent advocates of applying behavioral economics to the law make the claim that beha...
The debate over whether legal rules should be used to redistribute resources in society or whether r...
This Note develops a framework for understanding when policymakers should use equity-informed legal ...
Kaplow and Shavell (1994) show that legal rules should not be made contingent upon the income (wealt...
Economic analysis of law usually proceeds under the assumptions of neoclassical economics. But empir...
The emergence of the modern law and economics analysis generally is dated to the early 1960s with th...
Behavioral economic analysis of law presents an important challenge to conventional law and economic...
Rules which redistribute wealth make some people better off at the expense of other people; they imp...
This article examines the law and economics of behavioral regulation (“nudging”), which governments ...
This Article contends that the government should consider – rather than ignore – distributional cons...
“Redistribution is accomplished more efficiently through the income tax than through the use of lega...