03148nam 22006854a 450 991096217250332120200520144314.0978080476805408047680569781435608887143560888710.1515/9780804768054(CKB)1000000000480339(dli)HEB09034(SSID)ssj0000116779(PQKBManifestationID)11141724(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116779(PQKBWorkID)10036022(PQKB)11394969(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127837(Au-PeEL)EBL3037570(CaPaEBR)ebr10180147(OCoLC)798794063(DE-B1597)581607(DE-B1597)9780804768054(MiAaPQ)EBC3037570(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661711(OCoLC)1294425164(EXLCZ)99100000000048033920060807d2007 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrCalculating promises the emergence of modern American contract doctrine /Roy Kreitner1st ed.Stanford, CA Stanford University Pressc20071 online resource (xii, 242 p. ) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780804753982 0804753989 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. I. Gifts and promises revisited. The revolution in consideration doctrine ; The gift from beyond the grave: case law ; Responding to revolution: moving gifts and consideration through the twentieth century ; Speculating on gifts and promises -- pt. II. 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 ; Acquistive individuality vs. communal efficiency: conflicting policies and the love-hate relationship with risk -- pt. III. The narratives of incomplete contracts. Framing incomplete contracts ; The use and abuse of historical narrative: debates over incomplete contracts ; Evaluating the frame of incompleteness discourse.Presents the history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. This book 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.ACLS Fellows’ publications.ACLS Humanities E-Book.ContractsUnited StatesHistoryPromise (Law)United StatesHistoryContractsHistory.Promise (Law)History.346.7302Kreitner Roy834835MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962172503321Calculating promises1865987UNINA