Law and Inflation / / Keith S. Rosenn.

Inflation is an economic phenomenon that has profound implications for lawyers and jurists, because the great bulk of our laws and legal doctrines have been formulated on the assumption that the value of money remains relatively stable. Inasmuch as such an assumption is no longer tenable in much of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (494 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tables and Figures
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Statutes and Decrees
  • International Treaties and Conventions
  • Preface
  • 1. Inflation's Causes and Cures
  • 2. The Measurement of Inflation
  • 3. The Value of Money for Legal Purposes
  • 4. Statutory and Judicial Revision of Inflation-Distorted Contracts
  • 5. Protecting Contracts from Inflation
  • 6. Long-Term Credit Transactions, Insurance, Pensions, and Annuities
  • 7. Monetary Compensation and Inflation
  • 8. Value Maintenance in the International Sphere
  • 9. Income Taxation and Inflation
  • 10. Indexation: Inflationary Anesthesia or Adrenaline?
  • Appendices
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index