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Peter T. Leeson, WTF?!: An economic tour of the weird

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiv + 264 pages. $27.95 (paperback)

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  1. In an earlier article, Leeson distinguishes between a Coasian branch of law and economics that studies the impact of the legal system on economic activity and a Posnerian branch that studies how economic forces shape legal institutions (Leeson 2012). WTF?! is clearly in the Posnerian line of analysis.

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Koyama, M. Peter T. Leeson, WTF?!: An economic tour of the weird . Rev Austrian Econ 32, 81–84 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11138-017-0405-0

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