ABSTRACT
The present study is presented to the reader as a continuation of and expansion on our earlier work on pure economic loss in Europe.1 We now wish to take the subject beyond Western Europe, extending it to a variety of countries in the Far East, North America, Africa, and some recently admitted members of the European Union. Our previous work covered thirteen European systems in considerable detail. These were France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greece, England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and Finland. We wish to begin the present study by briefly summarizing the principal findings of that earlier study.
