Family Law Economics Part I: Ruminations

Alimony and Efficiency : The Gendered Costs and Benefits of the Economic Justification for Alimony

This paper will analyze the emerging law and economics justification for alimony. It will argue that while the economic justification for alimony contains some important insights, feminists and other family law scholars should ultimately be wary of attempting to justify postdivorce incomesharing by relying primarily on economic efficiency grounds. Part I of the paper will briefly sketch the his...

Crack babies and the Constitution: ruminations about addicted pregnant women after Ferguson v. City of Charleston.

Is managed care good for what ails you? Ruminations on race, age and class.

Well-being, Inequality and Time: The Time-slice Problem and its Policy Implications

Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Jurisprudence Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Policy Design, Analysis, and Evaluation Commons, Public Law and Legal Theory Commons, Social Welfare Law Commons, and the T...

The Problem With Bounded Rationality: Ruminations on Behavioral Assumptions in the Theory of the Firm

I discuss and compare alternative approaches to integrating bounded rationality with the theory of economic organization, concentrating on the organizational capabilities approach, which is strongly influenced by the works of Nelson and Winter, organizational economics, particularly transaction cost economics, and, finally, a small subset of the literature on biases to judgment and cognition. I...