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Calculating Promises : the Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Calculating Promises; Introduction The Imagined Individual at the Borders of Contract; Gifts and Promises Revisited; The Revolution in Consideration Doctrine; The Gift Beyond the Grave: Case Law; Responding to Revolution Moving Gifts and Consideration Through the Twentieth Century; Speculating on Gifts and Promises; Speculations of Contract; Distinguished Gambles The Struggle to Separate Speculation and Insurance from Gambling; "Contracts" for "Futures" Commercial Speculation and the Gambling Stigma; Wagering in Lives The Life Insurance Speculators.
- Acquisitive Individuality Versus Communal Efficiency Conflicting Policies and the Love- Hate Relationship with RiskThe Narratives of Incomplete Contracts; Framing Incomplete Contracts; The Use and Abuse of Historical Narrative Debates over Incomplete Contracts; Evaluating the Frame of Incompleteness Discourse; Conclusion Undermining the Metaphysics of Contract; Index.