Pure Economic Loss in Europe

The Common Core of European Private Law

by Mauro Bussani (Editor), Vernon Valentine Palmer (Editor)

How far can tort liability expand without imposing excessive burdens upon individual activity? This comprehensive study of the subject uses a fact-based comparative method and in-depth research into the laws of thirteen European countries. Many events result in pure economic loss, such as a business being idled by the cut of electricity cables. This controversial issue raises questions which affect the law of tort and contract.

640 pages, Hardcover

First published July 30, 1999