The dignity of commerce : markets and the moral foundations of contract law /
"Why should the law care about enforcing contracts? We tend to think of a contract as the legal embodiment of a moral obligation to keep a promise. When two parties enter into a transaction, they are obligated as moral beings to play out the transaction in the way that both parties expect. But...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Shakespeare and the predicament of contract theory
- Well-functioning markets and contract law
- The moral consequences of well-functioning markets
- Contract law, efficiency, and morality
- Consideration
- Remedies
- Boilerplate
- Pernicious markets and the limits of contract law
- Conclusion.