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020			_a0314010890
050			_aKF1251.B37
100			_aBarnes, David W.
245			_aThe economic analysis of tort law. /
260			_aSt.Paul: _bWest Publishing, _c1992.
300			_axv,161p.: _c25cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505			_aContents: 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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