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"General Introduction" [2009] ELECD 286; in Faure, Michael (ed), "Tort Law and Economics" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)

Book Title: Tort Law and Economics

Editor(s): Faure, Michael

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781847206596

Section Title: General Introduction

Number of pages: 22

Extract:

General introduction


1 Goal of this book
A central goal of this book is to provide a state of the art overview of the
literature with respect to the economic analysis of tort law. The organisa-
tion of this book, whereby in 16 chapters various aspects of tort law are
examined, is such that the reader not familiar with the area will get an
overview of the relevant economic literature. The authors have always
attempted to show the evolution of the literature in the particular domain,
the further refinements of economic models and the main conclusions from
this literature for the policy maker. Hence, the overviews should enable the
reader to get acquainted easily with the often vast literature in the particu-
lar domain. For those who are interested in further study or reading, every
chapter contains a detailed bibliography with a selection of the literature
on that particular topic.
This book fits into a general series of books which together consti-
tute the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. It builds further on the
Bibliography of Law and Economics (Bouckaert and De Geest, 1992),
which merely contained literature references to the various domains of
law and economics, as well as on the earlier version of the Encyclopedia
of Law and Economics which was published in 2000. That Encyclopedia
was published both in hard copy as well as electronically (Bouckaert and
De Geest, 2000). However, an update of this project was needed because
since 2000, there have been many evolutions and ...