Punitive damages : how juries decide / / Cass R. Sunstein, W. Kip Viscusi ... [et al.]; with an introduction by George L. Priest

• Autore: Sunstein Cass R.
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 347.73
• Soggetto topico: Exemplary damages - United States; Jury - United States - Decision making
• 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: 9786612537844; 9781282537842; 1282537849; 9780226780160; 0226780163
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973531003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II