Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine

Calculating Promises

The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine

2006 • 242 pages

"Calculating Promises examines the history of American contract law around the turn of the twentieth century. It meticulously details shifts in our conception of contract by juxtaposing scholarly accounts of contract with case law, and shows how the cases exhibit conflicts for which scholarship offers just one of many possible answers."--BOOK JACKET.

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