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Risks and Wrongs

Jules L. Coleman

Price: £34.99 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925361-6
Publication date: 19 September 2002
526 pages, 234x156 mm

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Newly reissued - a classic work by one of the world's leading legal philosophers

This classic book by one of America's preeminent legal theorists is concerned with the conflict between the goals of justice and economic efficiency in the allocation of risk, especially risk pertaining to safety. The author approaches his subject from the premise that the market is central to liberal political, moral, and legal theory. In the first part of the book, he rejects traditional rational choice liberalism in favor of the view that the market operates as a rational way of fostering stable relationships and institutions within communities of individuals with broadly divergent conceptions of the good. However, markets are needed most where they are most difficult to create and sustain, and one way to understand contract law in liberal legal theory, according to Professor Coleman, is as an institution designed to reduce uncertainty and thereby make markets possible.

Readership: Scholars and students of the philosophy of law; legal theorists; and economists.

Contents

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

Authors, editors, and contributors

Jules L. Coleman, Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Law, Yale University

Links to web resources and related information

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Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
Economic theory & philosophy
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Ethics & moral philosophy
Political science & theory

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