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Autore: | Sunstein Cass R. |
Titolo: | Punitive damages [[electronic resource] ] : how juries decide / / Cass R. Sunstein, W. Kip Viscusi ... [et al.]; with an introduction by George L. Priest |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina: | 347.73 |
Soggetto topico: | Exemplary damages - United States |
Jury - United States - Decision making | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | SunsteinCass R ViscusiW. Kip |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem and Efforts to Understand It -- 1. Overview: What We Did and What We Found -- Introduction -- 2. Shared Outrage, Erratic Awards -- 3. Deliberating about Dollars: The Severity Shift -- 4. Do Plaintiffs' Requests and Plaintiffs' Identities Matter? -- Introduction -- 5. Judging Corporate Recklessness -- 6 Looking Backward in Punitive Judgments: 20-20 Vision? -- Introduction -- 7. Corporate Risk Analysis: A Reckless Act? -- 8. Do People Want Optimal Deterrence? -- 9. Deterrence Instructions: What Jurors Won't Do -- 10. Judging Risk and Recklessness -- 12. Putting It All Together -- 13. What Should Be Done? -- Appendix: Judge's Instructions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Punitive damages |
ISBN: | 1-282-53784-9 |
9786612537844 | |
0-226-78016-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455616403321 |
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