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The economic analysis of tort law. /

By: Barnes, David WMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: St.Paul: West Publishing, 1992Description: xv,161p.: 25cmISBN: 0314010890LOC classification: KF1251.B37
Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Efficiency and utility maximization -- Efficiency and wealth maximization -- Comparing utility and wealth maximization: The pareto criteria and role of compensation -- Effeciency and equity -- The economic analysis of tort law: Liabilty as an incentive for effiecient behaviour -- The negligence standard -- The cost-benefit approach to liability -- Modern applications of the leaned hand formula -- The negligence standard-continued -- Efficiency of defenses to liability based omn negligence -- Nuisance law -- Trespass and nuisance -- Trespass and nuisance: Transaction costs and impediments to bargaining-continued -- Strict liability -- Efficient defenses to strict liability -- Problems in calculating damages.
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Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: Efficiency and utility maximization -- Efficiency and wealth maximization -- Comparing utility and wealth maximization: The pareto criteria and role of compensation -- Effeciency and equity -- The economic analysis of tort law: Liabilty as an incentive for effiecient behaviour -- The negligence standard -- The cost-benefit approach to liability -- Modern applications of the leaned hand formula -- The negligence standard-continued -- Efficiency of defenses to liability based omn negligence -- Nuisance law -- Trespass and nuisance -- Trespass and nuisance: Transaction costs and impediments to bargaining-continued -- Strict liability -- Efficient defenses to strict liability -- Problems in calculating damages.

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