Rethinking contract law and contract design /

Main Author: Goldberg, Victor P.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing 2016.
Series:Rethinking law
Subjects:
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245 1 0 |a Rethinking contract law and contract design /  |c Victor P. Goldberg, Jerome L. Greene Professor of Transactional law, Columbia University, USA. 
260 |a Cheltenham, UK ;  |b Edward Elgar Publishing  |c 2016.  |a Northampton, MA, USA : 
300 |a xiv, 286 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Rethinking law 
504 |a Includes bibliography (p. 270-273) and index. 
505 0 |a Part I. Direct damages -- The reliance-flexibility tradeoff and remedies for breach -- Assessing damages : now or then? -- The lost-volume-seller problem and why Michael Jordan wasn't one -- Six pennies for your thoughts : Freund v. Washington Square Press -- Freund through the looking glass : Chodos v. West Publishing Co. -- Cleaning up Lake River -- Part II. Consequential damages -- The "tacit assumption" and consequential damages -- Buffalo's field of dreams : Kenford Company v. Erie County -- The Achilleas : forsaking foreseeability -- Part III. Excuse and changed circumstances -- Excuse doctrine : the Eisenberg uncertainty principle -- After frustration : three cheers for Chandler v. Webster -- A precedent built on sand : Nor Con v. Niagara Mohawk -- Part IV. Offer and acceptance -- Brown v. Cara, the Type II preliminary agreement, and the option to unbundle -- Traynor (Drennan) v. Hand (Baird) : much ado about (almost) nothing. 
650 0 |a Contracts 
650 0 |a Contracts  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Contracts  |x Economic aspects. 
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