The economic structure of trusts /

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Author / Creator:Lau, M. W.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Description:ix, 214 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8390233
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ISBN:9780199602407 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199602409 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-209) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The trust deal and the rhetoric of contracts
  • Agency costs and the nexus of contracts
  • Trusts as entities
  • Trusts as economic firms
  • The function of trusts in business and commerce
  • The decline of property and trusts
  • Reconceptualizing property and funds in law and economics
  • The economic structure of trusts
  • The boundaries of the trust concept
  • Conclusion : the relationship between property and trusts.