LEADER 00589nam 2200193z- 450 001 9910273239603321 005 20160818152000.0 010 $a607-7877-15-8 035 $a(CKB)3810000000001638 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000001638 100 $a20150810c2013uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 00$aCompromiso Mutuo y Derecho: Un enfoque Convencionalista 210 $aMéxico$cJurídica de las Americas 517 $aCompromiso Mutuo y Derecho 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910273239603321 996 $aCompromiso Mutuo y Derecho: Un enfoque Convencionalista$91999457 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03069nam 22006374a 450 001 9910778254003321 005 20221108071840.0 010 $a0-8047-6805-6 010 $a1-4356-0888-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804768054 035 $a(CKB)1000000000480339 035 $a(dli)HEB09034 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000116779 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11141724 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000116779 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10036022 035 $a(PQKB)11394969 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127837 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037570 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10180147 035 $a(OCoLC)798794063 035 $a(DE-B1597)581607 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804768054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037570 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661711 035 $a(OCoLC)1294425164 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000480339 100 $a20060807d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCalculating promises$b[electronic resource] $ethe emergence of modern American contract doctrine /$fRoy Kreitner 210 $aStanford, CA $cStanford University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 242 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-5398-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 8 $aPresents the history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. This book details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers. 410 0$aACLS Fellows? publications. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aContracts$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPromise (Law)$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aContracts$xHistory. 615 0$aPromise (Law)$xHistory. 676 $a346.7302 700 $aKreitner$b Roy$0834835 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778254003321 996 $aCalculating promises$91865987 997 $aUNINA