Calculating promises : the emergence of modern American contract doctrine / / Roy Kreitner

• Autore: Kreitner Roy
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 242 p. )
• Disciplina: 346.7302
• Soggetto topico: Contracts - United States - History; Promise (Law) - United States - History
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Calculating promises
• ISBN: 9780804768054; 0804768056; 9781435608887; 1435608887
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962172503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ACLS Fellows’ publications.; ACLS Humanities E-Book.