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Informationen zum Autor Hanoch Dagan is one of the world's leading private law theorists. He is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and former dean of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. Dagan has written five books across the landscape of private law topics and has published over seventy articles in major law reviews and journals. His most recent book is Reconstructing American Legal Realism and Rethinking Private Law Theory (2013). Michael Heller is one of America's leading authorities on property. He is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law and former Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School. In The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives (2008), Heller sets out a market paradox that he discovered: private ownership usually creates wealth, but too much ownership has the opposite effect - it creates gridlock. Klappentext The Choice Theory of Contracts is an engaging landmark that shows, for the first time, how freedom matters to contract. Zusammenfassung The Choice Theory of Contracts is an engaging landmark in law and jurisprudence that shows, for the first time, exactly why and how freedom matters to contract. This concise, readable book gives contract scholars, teachers, and students a coherent liberal account that clarifies canonical cases and solves long-standing doctrinal puzzles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Autonomy as a Contract Value: 1. The challenge of autonomy; 2. Promise theory; 3. Transfer theory; 4. Recovering autonomy; Part II. The Goods of Contract: 5. Utility; 6. Community; Part III. The Choice Theory of Contracts: 7. Contractual freedom; 8. How contract values relate; 9. Contract spheres; 10. Contract types; 11. Market for new types; 12. Choice theory in practice; Conclusion; Notes; Index.