Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
7-2014
Editor(s)
Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello
ISBN
9781461477525
Publisher
Springer
Language
en-US
Abstract
This entry sets out the law and the economic theory of nuisance. Nuisance law serves a regulatory function: it induces actors to choose the socially preferred level of an activity by imposing liability when the externalized costs of the activity are substantially greater than the externalized benefits or not reciprocal to other background external costs. Proximate cause doctrine plays a role in supplementing nuisance law.
Recommended Citation
Keith N. Hylton,
Nuisance
,
in
No. 14-60
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
1505
(Alain Marciano and Giovanni Battista Ramello ed.,
2014).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/380
Comments
Published as: "Nuisance," in Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Living Reference Work edition, Alain Marciano & Giovanni B. Ramello, eds., Springer (2014).