A Positive Economic Analysis of Firearm Control Laws

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamed Khaledi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Positive Economic ◽  
Firearm Control

Suicide Rates in Canada before and after Tightening Firearm Control Laws

1993 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 787-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lester ◽  
Antoon Leenaars
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Rate ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Firearm Suicide ◽  
Firearm Control ◽  
Methods Of Suicide

In Canada, Bill C-51 was implemented in 1977 to restrict the use of firearms, providing a good opportunity to study the effects of gun control laws in the use of firearms for suicide. The present study examined the use of guns for suicide during the period prior to the bill and during the period after the passing of Bill C-51 to assess the association of the bill with suicide rates. Analysis showed a significant decreasing trend after passage of Bill C-51 on the firearm suicide rate in Canada and the percentage of suicides using firearms. The analysis supports the position that restricting easy access to lethal methods of suicide may assist in reducing suicide.

scholarly journals Some Economics of Trade Secret Law

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D Friedman ◽  
William M Landes ◽  
Richard A Posner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Trade Secret ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Trade Secrets ◽  
Positive Economic ◽  
The Common

Despite the practical importance of trade secrets to the business community, the law of trade secrets is a neglected orphan in economic analysis. This paper sketches an approach to the economics of trade secret law that connects it more closely both to other areas of intellectual property and to broader issues in the positive economic theory of the common law.

Gun Control Law (BILL C-17), Suicide, and Homicide in Canada

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Stephen Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Gun Control ◽  
Control Law ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Firearm Control ◽  
Method Analysis ◽  
Lethal Means ◽  
Comprehensive Studies

Canadian Bill C-17 was implemented in 1991 to restrict the use of firearms, providing a chance to investigate the effect of firearm control laws in the use of firearms for suicide and homicide. Following Lester and Leenaars' comprehensive studies, the present study examined the use of firearms for suicide and homicide during the period prior to the bill and during the period after the passing of Bill C-17 to assess the association of the bill with rates of suicide and homicide by method. Analysis showed a significant decrease after passage of Bill C-17 in the rates of suicides and homicides involving firearms and the percentage of suicides using firearms. The analysis provides support for the position that restricting the availability of firearms as a lethal means of committing suicide and homicide may help reduce the numbers of suicides and homicides.

A Positive Economic Analysis of Products Liability

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Landes ◽  
Richard A. Posner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Products Liability ◽  
Positive Economic

Law, economic approach to

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jules L. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Welfare Economics ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Economic Analysis Of Law ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Positive Economic ◽  
Trust Law

The development of an economic approach to legal practice has been the most important jurisprudential development in the last third of the twentieth century. Economic analysis has been offered as both a positive and a normative jurisprudence: as an analysis of important features of existing legal practices and as an ideal against which these practices ought to be evaluated. For some, economic analysis has a narrow explanatory range (in various fields of private law, corporations and taxation, and anti-trust law, for example), while others make broader claims for its ability to illuminate any area of law. Finally, there is a difference between those who focus on one explanation and those who focus on prediction, but all offer positive economic analysis of law based on the concept of economic efficiency as defined in welfare economics and applied to law by Coase, Posner, Calabresi and others.

Positive Wirtschaftsanalyse oder normativer Wirtschaftsentwurf?

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-245
Author(s):  
Christian E. W. Kremser
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Commercial Society ◽  
Positive Economic ◽  
Normative Economic

Abstract Many people consider Adam Smith the first economist to describe the functioning of capitalism. In fact, Smith must be considered less the discoverer of capitalism, but rather as its inventor. The economic laws Smith formulated are institutionally bound to the commercial society, to use the corresponding phrase of Smith, which at that time – at least in its liberal version – has not yet be materialized. In this sense, it represents a utopia of economic policy that still had to be realized. Smith’s comments on commercial society should therefore be understood less as a positive economic analysis than as a normative economic draft.

Suicides and Firearm Control Laws

1983 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marshall H. Medoff ◽  
Joseph P. Magaddino
Keyword(s):  
Control Laws ◽  
Firearm Control
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