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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 346.73066 EAN: 9781587781407 ISBN: 1587781409 Label: Foundation Pr Manufacturer: Foundation Pr Number Of Pages: 884 Publication Date: 2002-06 Publisher: Foundation Pr Studio: Foundation Pr Editorial Review: Product Description: Law students taking the basic course in corporations or business associations are the target audience for this text, although the author hopes the analysis will also prove useful to lawyers and judges seeking a fresh perspective on corporate law problems. For many law students, the prospect of studying corporate law is a daunting one. They may lack training in economics, business and accounting. This publication helps to bring aspects of those subjects into an introductory course book on corporations law. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Law Students Beware: Axes Being GroundStudents should think twice before investing in this pre-Enron corporate law hornbook. The author, Stephen Bainbridge, does a decent job when he sticks to legal exposition. Unfortunately, for every page of exposition, there is at least one page of special pleading and strained attempts to "retheorize" corporate law. These sections are heavy with jargon from organization theory and behavioral economics; Bainbridge loves terms like "bounded rationality" and "null hypothesis." Even worse, he is ... Read More Rating:  - A clear explanation to get you through that big bar classAs someone with no background at all in economics or business pre-law school, this saved me when I took Business Associations. There's always a whiff of political overtones whenever you deal with law and economics (i.e., I had Bainbridge and the section on shareholder voting was called "problems of control" on the syllabus rather than the neutral "shareholder voting" or something hippie-lefty like "making your voice heard"), but it's at the barest non-intrusive minimum here--you almost have to look ... Read More |
