The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract

The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract
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Год
 
Страниц
 
528
ISBN
 
0822323338
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Издательство Пушкинского Фонда
Категория
 
Банкротство

Содержание:

Юрий Дружников. Избранное в двух томах. Том 1. Ангелы на кончике иглы

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Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom. The 1970s was a decade of regulatory triumphalism in North America, marked by a surge in consumer, securities, and environmental regulation. Legal scholars predicted the ?death of contract? and its replacement by regulation and reliance-based theories of liability. Instead, we have witnessed the reemergence of free bargaining norms. This revival can be attributed to the rise of law-and-economics, which laid bare the intellectual failure of anticontractarian theories. Scholars in this school note that consumers are not as helpless as they have been made out to be, and that intrusive legal rules meant ostensibly to help them often leave them worse off. Contract law principles have also been very...

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