Contracts between Legal Persons
56 Pages Posted: 13 Dec 2010
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Contracts between Legal Persons
Abstract
Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, and then use this framework to organize the economics literature on contract. The title, Contracts between Legal Persons, limits the review to that part of contract law that is generic to any legal person. A legal person is any individual, firm or government agency with the right to enter into binding agreements. Our goal is to discuss the role of the law in enforcing these agreements under the hypothesis that the legal persons have well defined goals and objectives.
Keywords: contract law, law and economics, contract breach, contract theory, incomplete contracts
JEL Classification: K12, J33
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