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HARVARDLAWREVIEW	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
Economic Theories of Legal Liability	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
LAW AND ECONOMICS: SCIENCE OR POLITICS?	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
University	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
AN EXCHANGE	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
THE VALUE OF WEALTH: A COMMENT ON DWORKIN AND KRONMAN	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
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A Hypothesis of Wealth-Maximizing Norms: Evidence from the Whaling Industry	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
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THE LIGHTHOUSE IN ECONOMICS*	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
THE LESSONS OF THE LIGHTHOUSE: "GOVERNMENT" OR "PRIVATE" PROVISION OF GOODS	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
economists who claimed that lighthouses are a quintessential government good, Coase set out to demonstrate that lighthouse services were, in fact,	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
historically provided navigational information used to determine their lo-cation and to locate appropriate routes to their destinations. Because the seas have long been homogeneous in appearance, mariners needed fixed points of reference.	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
Mill&s; s words, "It is impossible that the ships at sea which are benefited by a lighthouse, should be made to pay a toll on the occasion of its use. "	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
not exist until quite recently. For example, if radio had existed, the ship captain could have radioed the lighthouse operator to turn on the light in exchange for which the captain would promise to pay an agreed amount.	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
more or less costly. But that cost depends on the existing technologies of collection. When it becomes technologically cost effective to collect for the provision of a good, private parties will find it worth their while to provide the good. Calling such goods "public goods" misses the	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
foreign or nonlocal vessels, it may be hard for the lighthouse operator to do this. He may not have reasonably cheap means at his disposal to announce his intention to all possible passing ships and to bind himself to follow that intention. If he cannot do this, many ships may choose to avoid the lighthouse by taking more circuitous routes or by traveling by day only. As a consequence, the lighthouse&s; s revenues would be de-pressed and would threaten the economic viability of the enterprise.	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
vately provided. In fact in some contexts, private provision works quite	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
but less for other societies. For that reason, the following discussion relies heavily, as did Coase, on the English material. Even within that	Jenny B. Wahl	Law and Economics	Jenny B. Wahl	1999	Routledge
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