My vocational interests focus on ec onomic analysis of the law of public corporations. Although my training at UVa emphasized the tools of neoclassical economics, I have since concluded that institutional economics and, to a somewhat lesser extent, behavioral economics have considerably greater explanatory power. As a result, I'm always looking for good overviews of those fields. I recently came across Allan Schmid's relatively new book Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, which is unusual in combining these two important fields. Schmid has done a great job of explaining the insights these areas of economics can provide for understanding not only economic questions, but also legal and policy issues. I'm finding it highly useful and recommend it to anyone with an interest in law and economics.