Law & Economics
Portrait of A. Mitchell Polinsky
Scholar portraitSource: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Polinsky

A. Mitchell Polinsky

Law-and-economics scholar of public enforcement, sanctions, and liability

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Official Source Note

Stanford SIEPR lists Polinsky as the Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and Economics and describes him as a scholar applying economic theory to many areas of law, including property, contracts, liability, and punitive damages.

Polinsky is included because his work gives readers a compact entry point into deterrence, damages, sanction design, and public enforcement, including his influential survey with Steven Shavell.

Source: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Relevance to the Archive

Polinsky is especially useful for connecting basic microeconomic tools to enforcement design, expected sanctions, marginal deterrence, and the institutional cost of legal rules.

Representative Contributions

  • An Introduction to Law and Economics
  • The Economic Theory of Public Enforcement of Law (with Steven Shavell)
  • Punitive Damages: An Economic Analysis

Works Included Here