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In the previous chapter we examined situations where the parties undertaking care and incurring harm were ‘economic strangers’ in the following important sense: there was no existing economic relationship between the parties when they chose their levels of care, or when accidents occurred.
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Robson, A. (2012). Markets for Potentially Harmful Goods — The Economics of Product Liability Rules. In: Law and Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230354944_6
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