01143nam a22001577a 4500 140915b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0314010890 KF1251.B37 Barnes, David W. The economic analysis of tort law. / St.Paul: West Publishing, 1992. xv,161p.: 25cm. 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. lcc BK 4778 12278 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 LL 2014-09-15 0 KF1251.B37 248/13 2014-09-15 00:00:00 1 2014-09-15 BK