Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law by Katz, Leo

Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226425948)

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Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law by Katz, Leo

Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law

$32.00
Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law by Katz, Leo

Ill-Gotten Gains: Evasion, Blackmail, Fraud, and Kindred Puzzles of the Law

$32.00
Format: Paperback
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In Ill-Gotten Gains, Leo Katz describes the underlying principles that not only guide the law but also moral decisions. Mixing wit with insight, anecdotes with analysis, Katz uncovers what is really at stake in crimes such as insider trading, blackmail, and plagiarism. With its startling conclusions and myriad twists, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by the perplexing relationship between morality and law.

"An ambitious and well-written book of legal and moral theory to overthrow both utilitarianism and its cousin, the economic approach to law."--Richard A. Posner, New Republic

"A good, well-written book full of interesting examples."--Library Journal

"[An] elegant defense of circumvention and subterfuge . . . a heroically counterintuitive book."--Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker

Author: Leo Katz
ISBN-10: 0226425940
ISBN-13: 9780226425948
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/08/1998
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.92d
By Leo Katz
By Leo Katz
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Leo Katz is professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Bad Acts and Guilty Minds, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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