Economic analysis of civil responsibility elements

Document Type : Scientific research

Authors

Roya Ghafari ¹

Mohammad Abedi ²

Abdollah Khodabakhshi Shalamzari ³

Sayyed Mohammad Mahdi Ghabooli Dorafshan ²

¹ Ph.D Student of Private Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/economlaw.2024.84544.1315

Abstract

In compensating for damages, paying attention to the guaranteed rights victim and in examining the pillars of civil responsibility analysis of the harmful act of the cause of the damage is the focal point. The economic analysis of law, with social engineering, to achieve social goals takes into account all actors and activists. This instrumental approach promotes the triple goals of prevention, distribution of damage and compensation. The condition of compensable loss such as predictability and directness and certainty and non-compensation of loss in legal analysis is based on fairness, ethics and justice. Every loss cannot be considered claimable, civil liability must have a logical and fair limit and an unlimited liability cannot be tolerated. In economic analysis, the reduction of the final cost determines the characteristic of compensable loss and compensability of any loss is not reasonable and efficient. The economy is a guide in determining the fault of the harmful act by providing an objective criterion and makes the relationship of causality, contrary to the conventional concept, efficient, and. This relationship exists between the loss and the factor that avoids with less cost

Keywords

Deterrence

Compensation

Cause

Compensable loss

Harmful act

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