Recent tort and medical malpractice reform has largely been directed at damages for noneconomic loss, a remedy-centric approach. This article addresses the issue of cost not from a remedy-centric perspective but from the perspective of the impact of the liability-determination process and...

This paper examines the role of privatization on the cost of government-provided services. We examine data on the cost of housing public and private prisoners from all 50 states over the time period 1996-2004, and find that the existence of private prisons in a state reduces the growth in per...