Barnes, David W. creator text xxu St.Paul West Publishing 1992 monographic eng

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xv,161p.: 25cm. 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. Includes index. KF1251.B37 0314010890 140915