Regulating Contracts

Description

Using an interdisciplinary approach involving economics, sociology, and law, this book examines the purposes, efficiency, and efficacy of legal regulation of contracts and suggests how legal regulation fails and how it might be improved. The conclusions suggest that the law plays an insignificant role in the construction of markets, and that it could provide better assistance by using indeterminate regulation that permits the recontextualization of legal reasoning. Title_Pages (1) Preface Table_of_Cases Table_of_Legislation The_Tasks_for_Regulating_Contracts The_Meaning_of_Contract The_Discourses_of_Legal_Regulation The_Capacity_of_Private_Law The_Construction_of_Markets Rationality_of_Contractual_Behaviour Planning_and_Cooperation Formalism_and_Efficiency Contract_as_Thing Power_and_Governance Unfair_Contracts Quality Government_by_Contract Dispute_Settlement Conclusion Bibliography Index