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by Charles Fried (Author) "The law of torts in the United States seeks to achieve a variety of aims: to compensate individuals injured by the risky business activities of..." (more)
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Two Harvard law professors make the case for improving tort law to better protect individuals and discipline businesses.
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The law of torts in the United States seeks to achieve a variety of aims: to compensate individuals injured by the risky business activities of large entities; to create incentives for those entities to take into account the dangers of their activities in the design of their processes, products, and services; and, it is said, to allow individuals who feel powerless to make their grievances felt against large, impersonal, and sometimes unresponsive, not to say arrogant, organizations. Read the first page
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New York, Harvard University Press, Steven Shavell, Supreme Court, Harvard Law Review, Journal of Legal Studies, Yale Law, David Rosenberg, Basic Variable, Economic Analysis of Accident Law, Stanford Law Review, United States, Charles Fried, Clean Water Act, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Economic Analysis of Law, New Haven, Santa Monica, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Yale University Press
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