Calculating Promises
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-5398-2 (ISBN)
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This book is a history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. It meticulously details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers.
Breaking with conventional wisdom, the author argues that our current understanding of contract is not the outgrowth of gradual refinements of a centuries-old idea. Rather, contract as we now know it was shaped by a revolution in private law undertaken toward the end of the nineteenth century, when legal scholars established calculating promisors as the centerpiece of their notion of contract.
The author maintains that the revolution in contract thinking is best understood in a frame of reference wider than the rules governing the formation and enforcement of contracts. That frame of reference is a cultural negotiation over the nature of the individual subject and the role of the individual in a society undergoing transformation. Areas of central concern include the enforceability of promises to make gifts; the relationship of contracts to speculation and gambling; and the problem of incomplete contracts.
Roy Kreitner is a member of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.
Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii @toc2:Introduction: The Imagined Individual at the Borders of Contract1 @toc1:Part OneGifts and Promises Revisited @toc2:1.The Revolution in Consideration Doctrine000 2.The Gift Beyond the Grave: Case Law000 3.Responding to Revolution: Moving Gifts and Consideration Through the Twentieth Century000 4.Speculating on Gifts and Promises000 @toc1:Part TwoSpeculations of Contract @toc2:5.Distinguished Gambles: The Struggle to Separate Speculation and Insurance from Gambling000 6."Contracts" for "Futures": Commercial Speculation and the Gambling Stigma000 7.Wagering in Lives: The Life Insurance Speculators000 8.Acquisitive Individuality Versus Communal Efficiency: Conflicting Policies and the Love-Hate Relationship with Risk000 @toc1:Part ThreeThe Narratives of Incomplete Contracts @toc2:9.Framing Incomplete Contracts000 10.The Use and Abuse of Historical Narrative: Debates over Incomplete Contracts000 11.Evaluating the Frame of Incompleteness Discourse000 Conclusion: Undermining the Metaphysics of Contract000 @toc4:Index
Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 481 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8047-5398-9 / 0804753989 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8047-5398-2 / 9780804753982 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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