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Title

Pure economic loss in Europe / edited by Mauro Bussani and Vernon Valentine Palmer.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Bussani, Mauro
• Palmer, Vernon V.

Description

xlviii, 589 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Pure economic loss is one of the most discussed and controversial legal issues in Europe today, raising complex questions which affect the law of tort and contract. How far can tort liability expand without imposing excessive burdens upon individual activity? Should the recovery of pure economic loss be the domain principally of the law of contract? And is there a common core of principles, policies and rules governing tortious liability for pure economic loss in Europe? Originally published in 2003, this is a comprehensive study of the subject, using a fact-based comparative method and in-depth research into the laws of thirteen European countries. Following a historical and analytical introduction to economic loss, experts from most European countries consider how their national systems would deal with the same practical problem, highlighting similarities and differences in a range of comprehensive issues. This is the third publication of the Common Core of European Private Law.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; [28]. The Common core of European private law project

Uniform Title

• Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) 28.
• Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996). Common core of European law project

Subject

• Damages > European Union countries
• Damages > Europe
• Lost earnings damages > Europe
• Pure economic loss

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-575) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The notion of pure economic loss and its setting / Mauro Bussani and Vernon Valentine Palmer -- 2. The rule against recovery in negligence for pure economic loss: an historical accident? / James Gordley -- 3A. Pure economic loss: an economic analysis / Jurgen G. Backhaus -- 3B. Liability for pure financial loss: revisiting the economic foundations of a legal doctrine / Francesco Parisi -- 4. American tort law and the (supposed) economic loss rule / Gary T. Schwartz -- 5. The liability regimes of Europe -- their facades and interiors / Mauro Bussani and Vernon Valentine Palmer -- 6. Preliminary remarks on methodology / Mauro Bussani and Vernon Valentine Palmer -- 7. The case studies -- 8. Summary and survey of the cases and results / Mauro Bussani and Vernon Valentine Palmer -- 9. General conclusions of the study / Mauro Bussani and Vernon Valentine Palmer -- 10. The recoverability of pure economic loss within the perspective of a European codification / Mauro Bussani and Vernon Valentine Palmer.

ISBN

0521824648 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2002031345

OCLC

• 50422953
• SCSB-10198741

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library