Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-575) and index.
Contents
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; General editors' preface; Preface; Contributors; Table of legislation; Abbreviations; 1 The notion of pure economic loss and its setting; 2 The rule against recovery in negligence for pure economic loss: an historical accident?; 3A Pure economic loss: an economic analysis; 3B Liability for pure financial loss: revisiting the economic foundations of a legal doctrine; 4 American tort law and the (supposed) economic loss rule; 5 The liability regimes of Europe -- their façades and interiors; 6 Preliminary remarks on methodology.
Summary
How far can tort liability expand without imposing excessive burdens upon individual activity? This comprehensive study of pure economic loss in Europe uses a fact-based comparative method and in-depth research into the laws of thirteen European countries. Includes a historical and analytical introduction to economic loss. This is the third published volume of the results of the Trento project.
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