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David Friedman - What Does Law Have To Do With Economics?

The Curious Task

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How to Prevent Air Pollution

Law often has to deal with concepts that are much more complicated than economists realized. The optimal level of polution is not zero, just as the optimal number of traffic accidents is not zero. So if you're willing to accept maximizn economic efficiency as your goal, it suggests what the rules ought to be.

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