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Causation and Incentives to Take Care under the Negligence Rule

1989; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 18; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/468154

1537-5366

Marcel Kahan,

Legal and Constitutional Studies

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