Readership: Scholars and students of the philosophy of law; legal theorists; and economists.
Jules L. Coleman, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Law, Yale University
Part I. The Market Paradigm 1: Rationality and Cooperation 2: Competition and Cooperation 3: Law and Markets 4: Efficiency and Market Failure Part II. Safeguard and Risks 5: The Rational Agreement 6: Safeguarding 7: Calculus and Contexts 8: From Contracts to Torts Part III. Rectifiable Wrongs 9: The Goals of Tort Law 10: Fault and Strict Liability 11: The Ecomomic Analysis of Torts 12: Reciprocity of Risk 13: Causation, Responsibility, and Strict Liability 14: Liability and Recovery 15: The Mixed Conception of Corrective Justice 16: Wrongfulness 17: Corrective Justice and Tort Law 18: Justifiable Departures From Corrective Justice 19: Product Liability 20: Liberalism Revisited Notes Index