The state and freedom of contract
By: edited by Harry N. Scheiber.
Contributors: Scheiber, Harry N.
Series: The making of modern freedom
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Contracts -- United States.; Liberty of contract -- United States.
Description: "The relationship of law to economic freedom has been a vital element in the history of all modern democratic societies. "Freedom of contract" is both a technical term in law, referring to private agreements and promises, and a metaphor often deployed to describe economic liberty. This volume of new essays by eminent legal historians offers fresh perspectives on freedom of contract in both senses of the term, and considers how economic freedom relates to such classic political freedoms as free speech and other Anglo-American constitutional norms. The principal focus of the essays is on broad issues of policy and law, rather than on narrow considerations of legal doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-363) and index.