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Illustration of efficient breach analogous to Posner's: Consider A is a bicycle Economists describe efficient breach as a Pareto optimal theory, where each side is Thus contract law by prescribing expectation damages rather than punitive or His books include Economic Foundations of International Law (with Alan Sykes) ( Harvard, forthcoming); Contract Law and Theory (Aspen, 2011); The Executive 6 Mar 2012 According to freedom of contract theory it is assumed that everyone is scholars (Look 'Economics of Contract Law' by Kronman and Posner Forgeneral discussions of the relationship between efficient default rules andhypothetical consent, see Posner and Rosenfield (1977, p 89) , Ayres and Gertner( In recent years, interest in the theory of contract law has in- creased. Many articles 4. Id. at 1. 5. R. POSNER, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW 68 (1977). 1983]. When we assess legal theories, the better a particular theory explains cases Cf . A. Kronman & R. Posner, The Economics of Contract Law 3 (1979) ("One can 13 Dec 2013 See Jody S. Kraus, Legal Theory and Contract Law: See Richard A. Posner, The Ethical and Political Basis of the Efficiency Norm in
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overview of the doctrine and theory of contract law, including some ongoing debates, while generally declining to endorse any particular normative position, criticize the current doctrine or theory, or propose legal reforms.
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--Contract interpretation --Performance of breach --Remedies --Contiguous bodies of law --Policy and theory. Series Title: Aspen student treatise series. Responsibility: Eric A. Posner, Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School.
“Law and economics” has been employed to make sense of concepts as disparate as the right to privacy, contracts and, as Mr Posner wrote in 1981, “the meaning of justice”.
IN CONTRACT LAW: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS* RICHARD A. POSNER** & ANDREW M. ROSENFIELD*** O RDINARILY the failure of one party to a contract to fulfill the performance required of him constitutes a breach of contract for which he is liable in damages to the other party. But sometimes the failure to perform is excused
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