Harm and Responsibility: The Economic Factors Controlling the Extent of Civil and Criminal Liability

by Thomas J. Miceli

Risk is an ever-present feature of life in a complex world, and it is important for societies to manage it in a just and efficient manner. One way to reduce risk is to assign responsibility for the associated harm. In this book, economist Thomas J. Miceli examines harm and responsibility from an economic perspective.

The book focuses on how responsibility affects people's incentives to refrain from causing unnecessary harm to achieve what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031748301
• ISBN13: 9783031748301
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 176 Pages