| Notes on contributors |
vii |
| 1. Property rights dynanfles: current issues in law and economics, Donatella Porrini, Giovanni B. Ramello |
1 |
| PART 1 - Property ríghts and law and econonfics theory: justifications and main issues |
17 |
| 2. The fall and rise of functional property, Francesco Parisi |
19 |
| 3. Property rights: a comparative law and economics perspective in the global era, Ugo Mattei, Andrea Pradi |
40 |
| 4. Entropy and the asymmetric Coase theorem, Francesco Parisi |
54 |
| 5. On incomplete property: a missing perspective in law and economics?, Antonio Nicita/i> |
77 |
| PART II - An old bottìe for new wines? The extensíons of property rights |
91 |
| 6. Intellectual property and the efficient allocation of social surplus from ínnovations, Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine |
93 |
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| 7. The uninvited guest: patents on Wall Street, Robert P. Mergesi |
116 |
| 8. Property rights in human tissue, Julia D. Mahoney, Pamela Clark |
138 |
| PART III - Shadows and lights: critical issues, conflicting cases and alternative paradigms |
155 |
| 9. The ongoing copyright as an essential facility saga, Paul L. C. Torremans |
157 |
| 10. The treatment of marital assets: common-law property rights and EU harmonization, Antony W. Dnes |
185 |
| 11. Intellectual property rights and judge-made law: an economie analysis of the production and diffusion of precedent, Sophie Harnay, Alain Marciano |
198 |
| 12. Failing property rights - the problem of sleeping owners in the city: a preliminary analysis of one aspect of the German unification treaty, Jorgen G. Backhaus |
219 |
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