InhaltsangabeChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Efficiency Criteria.- Chapter 3. The Structure of Efficient Liability Rules.- Chapter 4. Decoupled Liability and Efficiency.- Chapter 5. Negligence as Failure to Take Some Cost-Justified Precaution.- Chapter 6. The Structure of Incremental Liability Rules.- Chapter 7. The Negligence Rule.- Chapter 8. Decomposition of Loss and a Class of Negligence Rules.- Chapter 9. Multiple Injurers and Victims.- Chapter 10. Epilogue.

Satish K. Jain is Professor at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. He did his Master's in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, and Ph.D.  from the University of Rochester, USA. His areas of interest are law and economics, and social choice theory.