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The costs of accidents : a legal and economic analysis
- Title
- The costs of accidents : a legal and economic analysis / Guido Calabresi.
- Author
- Calabresi, Guido, 1932-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 1970.
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- Description
- x, 340 pages; 21 cm
- Alternative Title
- Accidents : a legal and economic analysis
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. Introduction : the need for a theoretical foundation of accident law. The Renaissance of accident law plans ; Some common areas of confusion ; Goals and subgoals of accident law -- pt. II. Subgoals of accident cost reduction and methods for achieving them. Secondary accident cost avoidance : the loss spreading and deep pocket methods ; Primary accident cost avoidance : the general deterrence approach ; Primary accident cost avoidance : the specific deterrence approach -- pt. III. Two major problems in reducing primary accident costs. Which activities cause which accident costs : the general deterrence approach ; Which activities cause which accident costs : the specific deterrence approach ; What is the cost? -- pt. IV. The fault system and accident cost reduction. The fault system and general deterrence ; The fault system and specific deterrence ; The fault system as a mixed system of primary cost control ; The fault system and secondary cost avoidance : possible modifications ; The costs of the fault system -- pt. V. Justice and the fault system. The moral framework : consistency and history ; The fairness of the fault system -- pt. VI. Toward a new system of accident law.
- ISBN
- 0300011148
- 9780300011142
- 0300011156
- 9780300011159
- LCCN
- 79081414
- OCLC
- ocm00059166
- 59166
- SCSB-5838688
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries