| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index. |
| Contents |
Overview : what we did and what we found / Reid Hastie -- Shared outrage, erratic awards / Daniel Kahneman, David A. Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein -- Deliberating about dollars : the severity shift / David A. Schkade, Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman -- Do plaintiffs' requests and plaintiffs' identities matter? / Reid Hastie, David A. Schkade, John W. Payne -- Judging corporate recklessness / Reid Hastie, David A. Schkade, John W. Payne -- Looking backward in punitive judgments : 20-20 vision? / Reid Hastie, David A. Schkade, John W. Payne -- Corporate risk analysis : a reckless act? / W. Kip Viscusi -- Do people want optimal deterrence? / Cass R. Sunstein, David A. Schkade, Daniel Kahneman -- Deterrence instructions : what jurors won't do / W. Kip Viscusi -- Judging risk and recklessness / W. Kip Viscusi -- Do judges do better? / W. Kip Viscusi -- Putting it all together / Reid Hastie -- What should be done? / Cass R. Sunstein. |
| Summary |
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries in civil trials. Probably the most extraordinary example is the July 2000 award of 144.8 billion in the Florida class action lawsuit brought against cigarette manufacturers. Or consider two recent verdicts against the auto manufacturer BMW in Alabama. In identical cases, argued in the same court before the same judge, one jury awarded 4 million in punitive damages, while the other awarded no punitive damages at all. In cases involving accidents. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Exemplary damages -- United States.
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Exemplary damages. |
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United States. |
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Jury -- United States.
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Jury. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sunstein, Cass R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Punitive damages. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2002 9780226780146 (DLC) 2001005835 (OCoLC)49258661 |
| ISBN |
9780226780160 (electronic book) |
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0226780163 (electronic book) |
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9780226780146 |
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0226780147 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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