"Contents" [2002] ELECD 3; in Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel (eds), "The Economics of Harmonizing European Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002)

Book Title: The Economics of Harmonizing European Law

Editor(s): Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781840646085

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents

List of figures and tables vii
List of contributors viii
Preface ix

Introduction: The economics of the constitutional moment in Europe 1
Jean-Michel Josselin and Alain Marciano

PART ONE COMPETITION AND HARMONIZATION

1 Regulatory competition or harmonization of laws? Guidelines
for the European regulator 27
Roger Van den Bergh
2 How to predict the differences in uniformity between different
areas of a future European private law? An evolutionary approach 50
Jan M. Smits
3 Legal culture as (natural?) monopoly 71
Anthony Ogus
4 Judicial competition, legal innovation and European integration:
an economic analysis 87
Sophie Harnay and Isabelle Vigouroux

PART TWO HARMONIZATION IN PRACTICE

5 European Union and public utility: a virtuous grouping?
Lessons from the reorganization of Corsican external transport 103
Thierry Garcia and Xavier Peraldi
6 The economics of harmonizing law enforcement 119
Nuno Garoupa
7 Product liability and product safety in a federal system:
economic reflections on the proper role of Europe 131
Michael G. Faure
8 Vocational qualifications and the European labour market:
the challenges and the prospects 178
Jean-Baptiste Calendini and Christophe Storaï

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9 Decentralized interregional cooperation in Europe 193
Sylvie Graziani and Michel Rombaldi

PART THREE COMPETITIVE DEMOCRACY AND THE
FUTURE OF EUROPE

10 A Europe of variety, not harmonization 209
Bruno S. Frey
11 Enlargement of the European Union and the Approximation of
Law: lessons from an economic theory of optimal legal areas 224
Dieter Schmidtchen, Alexander Neunzig and
Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz
12 Legal and ...