Michael J Trebilcock: 7 books

Book cover of The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract
by Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 1999

Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom. The 1970s was a...
Book cover of Dealing with Losers

Dealing with Losers

The Political Economy of Policy Transitions

by Professor Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014

Whenever governments change policies--tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others--there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. The issue...
Book cover of Institutional Bypasses

Institutional Bypasses

A Strategy to Promote Reforms for Development

by Mariana Mota Prado, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018

Institutional bypass is a reform strategy that creates alternative institutional regimes to give citizens a choice of service provider and create a form of competition between the dominant institution and the institutional bypass. While novel in the academic literature, the concept captures practices...
Book cover of Advanced Introduction to International Trade Law
by Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015

This book presents an accessible yet nuanced introduction to the basic structure and principles of international trade law. It explores the development of the international trade law regime, principally GATT and WTO law, and through clear and concise discussion of the many developments that have arisen,...
Book cover of Rethinking the Welfare State

Rethinking the Welfare State

Government by Voucher

by Ronald J. Daniels, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

Rethinking the Welfare State offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy in an international context, with a particular emphasis on the US and Canada. The authors investigate the claim that a decentralized delivery of government supported goods and services enables...
Book cover of Hard Choices, Soft Law

Hard Choices, Soft Law

Voluntary Standards in Global Trade, Environment and Social Governance

by John J. Kirton, Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

An important read for academics and policy-makers alike, Hard Choices, Soft Law asserts that voluntary standards, or 'soft' law, are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas. This key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law and trade, environment...
Book cover of The Limits of Freedom of Contract
by Michael J. Trebilcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 1997

Our legal system is committed to the idea that private markets and the law of contracts that supports them are the primary institutions for allocating goods and services in a modern economy. Yet the market paradigm, this book argues, leaves substantial room for challenge.
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