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Contracts
Steven Shavell
Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman, Ed.), May 1998
Abstract:
The private and the social functions of contracts and of contract law are examined in this entry. In section 1, on the basic theory of contracts, the topics considered include contract formation, why contract enforcement is valuable, the incompleteness of contracts, the interpretation of contracts, remedies for breach, renegotiation of contracts, and judicial overriding of contracts. In section 2, the economic literature on production contracts is reviewed, and in section 3 other types of contract are discussed.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 28
JEL Classification: K12
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Date posted: January 11, 1998
Suggested CitationShavell, Steven, Contracts. New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Peter Newman, Ed.), May 1998. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=52360 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.52360
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