TY - BOOK AU - Calabresi,Guido TI - The Cost of Accidents: A Legal and Economic Analysis SN - 9780300157970 AV - HE5614 -- .C32 1970eb U1 - 338.4/7/61486 PY - 1970/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Accident law -- Economic aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Analytical Table of Contents -- PART I. Introduction: The Need for a Theoretical Foundation of Accident Law -- Chapter 1. The Renaissance of Accident Law Plans -- 1. Social Insurance and Welfare Legislation Plans -- 2. First-Party Motorist Insurance Plans (Keeton-O'Connell, etc.) -- 3. The Defense Research Institute Approach -- 4. The Blum and Kalven Stopgap Plan -- 5. Judicial Moves in Products Liability Law -- 6. Toward a Theory of Accident Law -- Chapter 2. Some Common Areas of Confusion -- 1. Avoid Accidents at All Costs -- 2. Economic Laws Give Absolute Answers -- 3. Risk Distribution Is Self-Explanatory -- 4. A Necessary Financial Link Exists between Injurers and Victims -- Chapter 3. Goals and Subgoals of Accident Law -- 1. Justice -- 2. Reduction of Accident Costs -- 3. Other Goals outside Accident Law -- PART II. Subgoals of Accident Cost Reduction and Methods for Achieving Them -- Chapter 4. Secondary Accident Cost Avoidance: The Loss Spreading and Deep Pocket Methods -- 1. Theoretical Bases -- 2. Systems of Accident Loss Distribution -- 3. Why Private Insurance May Give Inadequate Loss Spreading -- 4. The World of Total Risk Spreading -- Chapter 5. Primary Accident Cost Avoidance: The General Deterrence Approach -- 1. Theoretical Basis -- 2. How Costs Are Reduced by General Deterrence -- 3. General Deterrence in a Socialist World -- 4. Limitations Imposed on General Deterrence by Its Dependence on Resource Allocation Theory -- 5. The World of Perfect General Deterrence -- Chapter 6. Primary Accident Cost Avoidance: The Specific Deterrence Approach -- 1. Definition -- 2. Bases of Specific Deterrence -- 3: Limits on Specific Deterrence: The World of Total Specific Deterrence -- 4. Specific Deterrence and the Market: Some Mixed Systems -- PART III. Two Major Problems in Reducing Primary Accident Costs; Chapter 7. Which Activities Cause Which Accident Costs: The General Deterrence Approach -- 1. The Initial Rough Guess -- 2. A Guideline: Relationship between Avoidance and Administrative Costs -- 3. A Guideline: Avoiding Externalization -- 4. A Guideline: The Best Briber -- 5. The Hard Case -- 6. Forum and Method -- 7. The Bargaining Case-A Detour -- Chapter 8. Which Activities Cause Which Accident Costs: The Specific Deterrence Approach -- 1. The Initial Rough Guess -- 2. Relationship between Avoidance and Administrative Costs -- 3. Externalization -- 4. Subcategorization and Transactions -- 5. The Hard Case -- 6. Market Modifications and the Specific Deterrence Hard Choice -- Chapter 9. What Is the Cost? -- 1. The General Deterrence Approach -- 2. The Specific Deterrence Approach -- PART IV. The Fault System and Accident Cost Reduction -- Chapter 10. The Fault System and General Deterrence -- 1. The Fault System and the General Deterrence Guidelines -- 2. The Fault System: Forum and Method -- 3. Instability of the Fault System's Market Deterrence -- Chapter 11. The Fault System and Specific Deterrence -- 1. Situations Involving Moral Issues -- 2. Situations in Which Collective Deterrence Is Economically Desirable -- Chapter 12. The Fault System as a Mixed System of Primary Cost Control -- Chapter 13. The Fault System and Secondary Cost Avoidance-Possible Modifications -- 1. Comparative Negligence -- 2. Compulsory Insurance -- 3. Consider Spreading Ability in Determining Fault -- 4. Combine Social Insurance with Fault -- Chapter 14. The Costs of the Fault System -- PART V. Justice and the Fault System -- Chapter 15. The Moral Framework-Consistency and History -- Chapter 16. The Fairness of the Fault System -- PART VI. Toward a New System of Accident Law -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S; T -- U -- V -- W N2 - No detailed description available for "The Cost of Accidents" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3421112 ER -