 Like the Crits, legal economists tend to be radical skeptics about causation. The leading early papers on causation all express skepticism about “causation” picking out any real relation in the world. On this skeptical view, lawyers are just doing intuitive economics or some other policy balancing in their use of causal idioms, because that is all they can be doing. Shavell (1980), and Landes and Posner (1983) explicitly rely on Edgerton, picking up precisely where Edgerton began his skepticism, in the liability rules for symmetrically concurrent overdetermination cases.