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Calculating promises: the emergence of modern American contract doctrine
Roy Kreitner-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction: The Imagined Individual at the Borders of Contract (page 1)
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PART ONE ǀ GIFTS AND PROMISES REVISITED
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1. The Revolution in Consideration Doctrine (page 15)
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2. The Gift Beyond the Grave: Case Law (page 43)
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3. Responding to Revolution: Moving Gifts and Consideration Through the Twentieth Century (page 68)
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4. Speculating on Gifts and Promises (page 83)
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PART TWO ǀ SPECULATIONS OF CONTRACT
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5. Distinguished Gambles: The Struggle to Separate Speculation and Insurance from Gambling (page 97)
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6. "Contracts" for "Futures": Commercial Speculation and the Gambling Stigma (page 105)
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7. Wagering in Lives: The Life Insurance Speculators (page 126)
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8. Acquisitive Individuality Versus Communal Efficiency: Conflicting Policies and the Love-Hate Relationship with Risk (page 147)
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PART THREE ǀ THE NARRATIVES OF INCOMPLETE CONTRACTS
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9. Framing Incomplete Contracts (page 163)
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10. The Use and Abuse of Historical Narrative: Debate over Incomplete Contracts (page 188)
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11. Evaluating the Frame of Incompleteness Discourse (page 217)
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Conclusion: Undermining the Metaphysics of Contract (page 227)
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Index (page 239)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JIH | 39.1 (Summer 2008): 142-143 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20143797 |
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Published: 2007
Publisher: Stanford University Press
- 9780804753982 (hardcover)
- 9780804768054 (ebook)