Accident costs, resource allocation and individual rationality: Blum, Kalven and Calabresi

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1084-1114

  Marciano, Alain ^a   Romaniuc, Rustam ^a,b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blum and Kalven; Calabresi; economic analysis of law; law as incentives; Rationality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949098039     PISSN: 09672567     EISSN: 14695936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2015.1084520     Document Type: Article

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