Framing Contract Law : : An Economic Perspective / / Victor Goldberg.
The central theme of this book is that an economic framework--incorporating such concepts as information asymmetry, moral hazard, and adaptation to changed circumstances--is appropriate for contract interpretation, analyzing contract disputes, and developing contract doctrine. The value of the appro...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- I Some Concepts
- Introduction
- 1 The Net Profits Puzzle
- II Consideration
- Introduction
- 2 Reading Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon with Help from the Kewpie Dolls
- 3 Mutuality and the Jobber’s Requirements: Middleman to the World?
- 4 Satisfaction Clauses: Consideration without Good Faith
- III Interpretation
- Introduction
- 5 Discretion in Long-Term Open Quantity Contracts: Reining In Good Faith
- 6 In Search of Best Efforts: Reinterpreting Bloor v. Falstaff
- 7 Columbia Nitrogen v. Royster: Do as They Say, Not as They Do
- 8 The “Battle of the Forms”: Fairness, Efficiency, and the Best-Shot Rule
- IV Remedies
- Introduction
- 9 Campbell v. Wentz: The Case of the Walking Carrots
- 10 Expectation Damages and Property in the Price
- 11 The Middleman’s Damages: Lost Profits or the Contract-Market Differential
- 12 An Economic Analysis of the Lost-Volume Retail Seller
- 13 Consequential Damages
- 14 A Reexamination of Glanzer v. Shepard: Surveyors on the Tort-Contract Boundary
- V Option to Terminate
- Introduction
- 15 Bloomer Girl Revisited, or How to Frame an Unmade Picture
- 16 Bloomer Girl: A Postscript
- 17 Wasserman v. Township of Middletown: The Penalty Clause That Wasn’t
- VI Impossibility, Related Doctrines, and Price Adjustment
- Introduction
- 18 Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts
- 19 Impossibility and Related Excuses
- 20 Alcoa v. Essex: Anatomy of a Bungled Deal
- 21 Mineral Park v. Howard: The Irrelevance of Impracticability
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Table of Cases
- Index