Research Catalog

Title

Public interest law : an economic and institutional analysis / Burton A. Weisbrod, in collaboration with Joel F. Handler and Neil K. Komesar.

Author

Weisbrod, Burton Allen, 1931-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1978.

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Additional Authors

• Komesar, Neil K.
• Handler, Joel F.

Description

x, 580 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Monographic compilation of essays on public interest, law activities in the USA - presents theoretical analysis of failure of government policy to enhance public interest law, firm behaviour and volume of business, presents case studies in interest group advocacy for environmental protection, housing, employment, sex discrimination, consumer protection, occupational safety and occupational health, etc., and includes jurisprudence. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Subject

Public interest law > United States

Genre/Form

• graph.
• reference.
• graphique.
• référence bibliographique.
• gráfico.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Burton A. Weisbrod -- Conceptual perspective on the public interest : an economic analysis / Burton A. Weisbrod -- Problems of enhancing the public interest : toward a model of government failures / Burton A. Weisbrod -- The public interest law industry / Joel F. Handler, Betsy Ginsberg and Arthur Snow -- The public interest law firm : a behavioral analysis / Neil K. Komesar and Burton A. Weisbrod -- What might public interest law accomplish : distributional effects / Burton A. Weisbrod -- Environmental defense I : introduction to interest group advocacy / David M. Trubek -- Environmental defense II : examining the limits of interest group advocacy / David M. Trubek and William J. Gillen -- Housing, zoning, and the public interest / Neil K. Komesar -- Public interest law and employment discrimination / Joel F. Handler, with George Edgar and Russell F. Settle
• Occupational safety and health and the public interest / Russell F. Settle and Burton A. Weisbrod -- Public interest law activities in education / A. James Lee and Burton A. Weisbrod -- The medical marketplace and public interest. part I / David Mechanic ; part II / Philip J. Leaf -- Consumerism, consumers and public interest law / Arthur Snow and Burton A. Weisbrod -- Public interest law and federal income taxes / Thomas C. Heller -- Non-law public interest adovcacy : advertising on children's television / Gerald J. Thain with Arthur Snow -- Public interest law activities outside the U.S.A. / Ellen Sward and Burton A. Weisbrod -- Financing public interest law : an evaluation of alternative financing arrangements / Russell F. Settle and Burton A. Weisbrod -- Conclusions / Burton A. Weisbrod

ISBN

0520033558

LCCN

^^^76048367^

OCLC

• 3980386
• SCSB-9902511

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library