This working paper provides an overview of the concept and practice of forensic economics by discussing four questions concerning the domain of this discipline. The first question asks whether forensic economics is a practical or academic enterprise, or both. The second one concerns the types of...

Author concerns himself with the question whether it is desirable that law only promotes economic goals. Acceptance of Posner's wealth maximization principle implicitly leads also to acceptance of current distribution of wealth and income. Calabresi doubts that acceptance of the latter is...