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082	0		_a346.7302
100	1		_aKreitner, Roy.
245	1	0	_aCalculating Promises : _bThe Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aRedwood City : _bStanford University Press, _c2006.
264		4	_c©2006.
300			_a1 online resource (256 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
520			_aThis 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aContracts -- United States -- History.
650		0	_aPromise (Law) -- United States -- History.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aKreitner, Roy _tCalculating Promises _dRedwood City : Stanford University Press,c2006 _z9780804753982
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3037570 _zClick to View
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