Kreitner, Roy. <br/><br/>
Calculating Promises :  The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (256 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Calculating Promises -- Introduction The Imagined Individual at the Borders of Contract -- Gifts and Promises Revisited -- The Revolution in Consideration Doctrine -- The Gift Beyond the Grave: Case Law -- Responding to Revolution Moving Gifts and Consideration Through the Twentieth Century -- Speculating on Gifts and Promises -- 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 -- Acquisitive Individuality Versus Communal Efficiency Conflicting Policies and the Love- Hate Relationship with Risk -- 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 -- Conclusion Undermining the Metaphysics of Contract -- Index. 
<br/><br/> This history of American contract law argues that late nineteenth-century legal scholars revolutionized doctrine by establishing calculating promisors as the centerpiece of their conception of contract, a conception still widely held today. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804768054 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Contracts -- United States -- History.<br/>Promise (Law) -- United States -- History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF801 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.7302