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Journal of law and social sciences of the Law Faculty of University J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek = Zeitschrift für Rechts-und Sozialwissenschaften der Fakultät für Rehtswissenschaften der Universität J.J. Strossmayer in Osijek = Journal des sciences juridiq, Vol. 34 No. 3-4, 2018.

Review article

https://doi.org/10.25234/pv/7491

LIABILITY, PRAGMATISM AND ECONOMICS

Giovanni Tuzet ; Associate Professor, Department of Law, Bocconi University, Via Roberto Sarfatti 25, 20100 Milano, Italy

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Abstract

The article considers the concept of legal liability and shows how pragmatist legal thinkers (1) reshaped it in the light of their philosophical externalism and (2) developed an economic analysis of it that is certainly stimulating but raises some serious concerns. The main characters of this story are Oliver Holmes for the classical pragmatist reshaping of the concept, and Learned Hand and Richard Posner for the more recent economic analysis of it. The paper suggests that, despite those concerns, that pragmatist reshaping was, and still is, welcome

Keywords

Economic Analysis; Hand Formula; O.W. Holmes; Liability; Pragmatism; Tort Law

Hrčak ID:

214258

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/214258

Publication date:

31.12.2018.

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