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Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1. Practice and discipline -- 1.2. The emergence of "Law and economics" -- 1.3. Institutions and the enforcers of law -- 1.4. Agenda Chapter 2: A brief history of law and economics -- 2.1. The law and its implementation: Some examples -- 2.2. Traditional law and economics: A very short introduction -- 2.3. Game theory> A very short introduction -- 2.4. The "Ink on paper" critique and the neoclassical fallacy Chapter 3: The focal point approach to law and economics -- 3.1. The salience of beliefs -- 3.2. A primer on focal point and equilibrium -- 3.3. The law as focal ponit -- 3.4. The implementation of laws -- 3.5. Focal curbs Chapter 4: The first mover advantage -- 4.1. The law in the extensive form -- 4.2. Subgame perfection: a technical digression -- 4.3. Law as cheap talk and burning money -- 4.4. Life and resurrection Chapter 5: Social norms and the law -- 5.1. Norms, laws, and beliefs -- 5.2. Social norms and multiple equilibria: punctuality -- 5.3. Discrimination as focal point -- 5.4. Child labor and the law -- 5.5. Citizens, functionaries, and the game of sovereign Chapter 6: Law, politics, and corruption -- 6.1. Law, governance, and development -- 6.2. Power and oppression: dictatorship, McCarthyism, and Witch hunts -- 6.3. Freedom of speech, with or wirhout Law -- 6.4. The Scourge of corruption Chapter 7: Rationality, law, and legitimacy -- 7.1. Beyond rationality -- 7.2. Traveler's dilemma and the meaning os rationality -- 7.3. Focal point approach with behavioral features -- 7.4. Interest, resentment, and legitimacy Chapter 8: Picking Up the threads -- 8.1. The road ahead -- 8.2. Statistical information and morals -- 8.3. The noah's ark critique -- 8.4. Prologue to a global constitution -- 8.5. Coda