Introduction / Deborah R. Hensler -- The socio-economics of mass torts : What we know, don't know and should know / Michael Heise -- Economic analysis of medical malpractice liability and its reform / Jennifer Arlen -- Economic analysis of products liability : Theory / Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum -- Causation in tort law: a reconsideration / Keith N. Hylton -- Causation and foreseeability / Mark F. Grady -- Fault lines in the positive economic analysis of tort law / Mark A. Geistfeld -- The law and economics of liability insurance : A theoretical and empirical review / Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman -- Economic analysis of joint and several liability / Lewis A. Kornhauser -- Economic policy and the vicarious liability of firms / Reinier Kraakman -- Group litigation in the enforcement of tort law / Geoffrey Miller -- The socio-economics of mass torts : What we know, don't know and should know / Deborah R. Hensler -- Do damages caps reduce medical malpractice insurance premiums? : a systematic review of estimates and the methods used to produce them / Kathryn Zeiler and Lorian Hardcastle -- Law and economics of settlement / Abraham L. Wickelgren -- Bounded rationality in the settlement process : empirical evidence on the causes of settlement failure in litigation / Linda Babcock and Joshua Furgeson -- Contingent-fee contracts in litigation : A survey and assessment / Eric Helland and Seth A. Seabury -- Empirical analysis of juries in tort cases / Shari Seidman Diamond and Jessica M. Salerno -- Damages for incompensable harms / Robert Cooter and David DePianto -- Empirical analysis of tort damages / W. Kip Viscusi -- Economic analysis of punitive damages : Theory, empirics, and doctrine / Catherine M. Sharkey -- The empirical effects of tort reform / Theodore Eisenberg -- Do damages caps reduce medical malpractice insurance premiums? : a systematic review of estimates and the methods used to produce them / Kathryn Zeiler and Lorian Hardcastle -- Alternatives and complements : Liability and regulation as remedies for physical injury / Richard A. Epstein. Alternatives and complements : Liability and regulation as remedies for physical injury / Richard A. Epstein.
Summary:
Scholars, students, law practitioners, regulators, judges and economists with an interest in tort law, litigation, damages, and reform will find this seminal Handbook an invaluable addition to their libraries.
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