Introductory reading in Law and Economics Articles Posner, Richard, Intellectual Property: The Law and Economics Approach,

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 57-73, 2005. Available at:
http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Courses/StratTech09/Lectures/IP/Papers/posner05.pdf

Posner, Richard, The Economic Approach to Law, 53 Tex. L. Rev. 757 1974-1975. Polinsky, A. Mitchell, Shavell, Steven, Economic Analysis of Law, Available at: http://ideas.repec.org/p/sip/dpaper/05-005.html Thomas S. Ulen, Rational Choice Theory in Law and Economics. Available at: http://encyclo.findlaw.com/0710book.pdf Machlup, Fritz, An Economic Review of the Patent System, Subcommittee On Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 85th Cong., 2d Sess., Comm. Print 1958. Kitch, Edmund W., The Nature and Function of the Patent System, 20 J. L. & Econ., 256, 1977. Calabresi, Guido, Melamed, A. Douglas, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, 85 Harv. L. Rev. 1089, 1972. Besen, Stanley, M., Raskind, Leo, J., An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property, 5 (1) The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3, 1991.

Chapters Menell, Peter, Intellectual Property: General Theories, http://encyclo.findlaw.com/1600book.pdf Menell, Peter S., Scotchmer, Suzanne, Intellectual Property Law, Chapter 19 in: POLINSKY, A. MITCHELL, SHAVELL, STEVEN, (EDS.) HANDBOOK OF LAW AND ECONOMICS, VOLUME 2, Elsevier, 2007. Books Guellec, Dominique, van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Bruno, THE ECONOMICS OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT SYSTEM, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2007

General Law & Economics textbooks Cooter, Robert, Ulen, Thomas, LAW & ECONOMICS, 5th ed., Pearson Addison Wesley, Boston; Munich [a.o.], 2008. Mercuro, Nicholas, Medema, Steven G., ECONOMICS AND THE LAW: FROM POSNER TO POST-MODERNISM, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997. Posner, Richard A., ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW, 7th ed., Aspen Publishers, New York, 2007.

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