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Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by EPPS, GARRETT
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Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law, by Carl Bogus. New York University Press, 272 pages, $34.95.
Nature, the Stoics taught, imposes no pain she does not also give us strength to bear. And what pain is easier to endure than that of other people? The "tort reform" movement in contemporary America is largely a discussion of how we should handle other people's suffering. Carl Bogus speaks for those who think it worthy of consideration and even compensation; Philip K. Howard will please those who find it trivial or ...
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