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Title

The Economics of contract law / [compiled by] Anthony T. Kronman, Richard A. Posner.

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown, c1979.

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Additional Authors

• Kronman, Anthony T.
• Posner, Richard A.

Description

x, 274 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Contracts > United States
• Contracts > Economic aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Economic theory and contract law -- Chapter 2. The economic basis of contracts -- Hobbes, Leviathan -- Umbeck, A theory of contract choice and the California Gold Rush -- Birmingham, Game theory and contract law -- Tullock, THe logic of the law -- Hardy, Risk and risk-bearing -- Holmes, The common law -- Coase, The nature of the firm -- Notes and questions -- Chapter 3. Consideration and assent -- Fuller, Consideration and form -- Posner, Gratuitous promises in economics and law -- Landes & Posner, Unilateral and implied contracts and restitution -- Notes and questions -- Chapter 4. Duress and unconscionability -- Dalzell, Duress by economic pressure -- Goldberg, Institutional change and the quasi-invisible hand -- Coase, the choice of the institutional framework: a comment -- Trebilcock, The doctrine of inequality of bargaining power -- Epstein, Unconscionability: a critical reappraisal --^
• Kennedy, Form and substance in private law adjudication -- Notes and questions -- Chapter 5. Mistake and impossibility -- Kronman, Mistake, disclosure, information, and the law of contracts -- Posner & Rosenfield, Impossibility and related doctrines in contract law -- Schwartz, Sales law and inflations -- Joskow, Commercial impossibility, the uranium market and the Westinghouse case -- Notes and questions -- Chapter 6. Remedies -- Barton, The economic basis of damages for breach of contract -- Priest, Breach and remedy for the tender of nonconforming goods -- Leff, Injury, ignorance and spite -- the dynamics of coercive collection -- Kronman, Specific collection -- Goetz & Scott, Liquidated damages, Penalties and the just compensation principle -- Speidel & Clay, Seller's recovery of overhead -- Note, Microeconomics and the lost-volume seller -- Grossfeld, Money sactions for breach of contract in a communist economy -- Notes and questions --^
• Chapter 7. Freedom of contract: Philosophical perspectives on economic analysis -- Weber, Freedom and coercion -- Baker, The ideology of the economic analysis of law -- Nozick, Anarchy, state, and utopia -- Marx, The buying and selling of labor-power -- Horwitz, The transformation of American Law -- Note on Paternalism -- Notes and Questions -- Index

LCCN

^^^78070055^

OCLC

• 6303765
• SCSB-10149100

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library