TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shavell,Steven
TI  - Economic Analysis of Contract Law
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9696
PY  - 2003
Y2  - May 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9696
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9696.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Steven Shavell
Harvard Law School
1575 Massachusetts Avenue
Hauser Hall 508
Cambridge, MA  02138
Tel: 617/495-3668
Fax: 617/496-2256
E-Mail: shavell@law.harvard.edu
AB  - Contract law governs agreements between parties.  This paper contains the chapters on contract law from a general, forthcoming book, Foundations of Economic Analysis of Law (Harvard University Press, 2003).  Chapter 13 presents an overview of the subject. Chapter 14 is concerned with contract formation, that is, with the process through which parties find contracting partners, with aspects of contract negotiation, and with the rules governing when an arrangement between parties becomes legally recognized as a contract. Chapter 15 considers at length an important type of contract: the contract to produce something. Chapter 16 is concerned with two other types of contract: the contract for transfer of possession of something that already exists (such as land or a painting), and donative contracts.
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