The economics of remedies
By: edited by Ariel Porat
Series: Economic approaches to law -- 31; Economic approaches to law -- 31.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 674
ISBN-13: 9780857934482
Subjects: Contracts; Torts; Economic aspects; Remedies (Law)
Table of contents: title: Part I. Property rules and liability rules; title: Property rules, liability rules and inalienability : one view of the cathedral / Guido Calabresi and A. Douglas Melamed; title: Property rights and liability rules : the ex ante view of the cathedral / Lucian Arye Bebchuk; title: Modular liability rules / Ronen Avraham; title: Toward an asymmetric coase theorem / Barbara Luppi and Francesco Parisi; title: Part II. Efficient breach : damages versus specific performance; title: Specific performance / Anthony T. Kronman; title: The case for specific performance / Alan Schwartz; title: The efficiency of specific performance : toward a unified theory of contract remedies / Thomas S. Ulen; title: Contract remedies, renegotiation, and the theory of efficient breach / Richard Craswell; title: Part III. The measure of recovery; title: Damages for breach of contract / Robert Cooter and Melvin Aron Eisenberg; title: Accuracy in the assessment of damages / Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell; title: Punitive damages : an economic analysis / A. Mitchell Polinksy and Steven Shavell; title: Liquidated damages, penalties and the just compensation principle : some notes on an enforcement model and a theory of efficient breach / Charles J. Goetz and Robert E. Scott; title: Part IV. The scope of liability; title: Economic loss in tort / W. Bishop; title: Non pecuniary loss and breach of contract / Samuel A. Rea, Jr.; title: What is "fair compensation" for death or injury? / David Friedman; title: Beyond forseeability : consequential damages in the law of contract / Richard A. Epstein; title: Part V. Partial compensation; title: Probabilistic recoveries, restitution, and recurring wrongs / Saul Levmore; title: Offsetting risks / Ariel Porat.