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  2. Contract theory - Wikipedia

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    Contract theory in economics began with 1991 Nobel Laureate Ronald H. Coase's 1937 article "The Nature of the Firm". Coase notes that "the longer the duration of a contract regarding the supply of goods or services due to the difficulty of forecasting, then the less likely and less appropriate it is for the buyer to specify what the other party should do."

  3. History of contract law - Wikipedia

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    Collective bargaining and growing number of employment rights carried the employment contract into an autonomous field of labour law where workers had rights, like a minimum wage, [45] fairness in dismissal, [46] the right to join a union and take collective action, [47] and these could not be given up in a contract with an employer.

  4. Legal origins theory - Wikipedia

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    Operationally, the "legal origins" scholars assigned the majority of countries in the world to either the English-common law, the French-civil law, or one among the German, Scandinavian, and Socialist legal traditions and then they calculated correlations between these legal origins dummies and proxies for the aforementioned economic outcomes. [1]

  5. The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract - Wikipedia

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    Part I The Beginnings of Freedom of Contract: The Story to 1770. 2 The Condition of England in 1770; 3 The Intellectual Background in 1770–I; 4 The Intellectual Background in 1770–II; 5 The Legal Background in 1770; 6 Contract Law and Theory in 1770–I; 7 Contract Law and Theory in 1770–II; Part II The Age of Freedom of Contract, 1770–1870

  6. Legal history - Wikipedia

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    Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations [ 1 ] and operates in the wider context of social history .

  7. United States contract law - Wikipedia

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    SJ Burton and MA Eisenberg, Contract Law: Selected Source Materials Annotated (2011) RE Barnett, The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts (2010). MA Chirelstein, Concepts and Case Analysis in the Law of Contracts (6th edn 2010) EA Farnsworth, Contracts (2008) LL Fuller, MA Eisenberg and MP Gergen Basic Contract Law (9th edn 2013)

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    We closed a record-setting number of deals in Q4, including 32 deals worth $10 million or more. Our U.S. business is at the forefront of the AI revolution, growing 52% year over year in Q4.

  9. Relational contract - Wikipedia

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    Relational contract theory was originally developed in the United States by the legal scholars Ian Roderick Macneil and Stewart Macaulay. According to Macneil, the theory offered a response to the so-called "The Death of Contract" school’s nihilistic argument that a contract was not a fit subject for study as a whole; each different type of contract (e.g., sales, employment, negotiable ...