Skip to main content

The Enforcement of Contracts and Private Ordering

  • Chapter
  • 5586 Accesses

Keywords

These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Buying options

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (Canada)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   259.00
Price excludes VAT (Canada)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD   329.99
Price excludes VAT (Canada)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Burton, Steven and Eric G. Andersen. 1995. Contractual Good Faith. New York: Little Brown.

    Google Scholar 

  • Farnsworth, E. Allan. 1984. “On Trying to Keep One's Promises: The Duty of Best Efforts in Contract Law”. University of Pittsburg Law Review 46: 1–20.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fuller, Lon and William Perdue. 1936. “The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages”. Yale Law Journal 46: 52–96, 373–420.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gilson, Ronald J. 1984. “Value Creation by Business Lawyers: Legal Skills and Asset Pricing”. Yale Law Journal 94: 239–313.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, Victor P. 1985. “Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts”. Wisconsin Law Review 1985: 527–543.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, Victor P. 1991. “The International Salt Puzzle”. Research in Law and Economics 14: 31–49.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, Victor P. 2000. “In Search of Best Efforts: Reinterpreting Bloor v. Falstaff”. St. Louis University Law Journal 44: 1465–1485.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, Victor P. 2002. “Discretion in Long-Term Open Quantity Contracts: Reining in Good Faith”. UC Davis Law Review 35: 319–385.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goldberg, Victor P. and John Erickson. 1987. “Quantity and Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts: A Case Study of Petroleum Coke”. Journal of Law and Economics 30: 369–398.

    CrossRef  Google Scholar 

  • Jackson, Thomas H. 1978. “'Anticipatory Repudiation’ and the Temporal Element of Contract Law: An Economic Inquiry into Contract Damages in Cases of Prospective Nonperformance”. Stanford Law Review 31: 69–119.

    Google Scholar 

  • Joskow, Paul. 1977. Commercial Impossibility, the Uranium Market and the Westinghouse Case. Journal of Legal Studies 6: 119–176.

    Google Scholar 

  • Posner, Eric. 2003. “Economic Analysis of Contract Law after Three Decades: Success or Failure?” Yale Law Journal 112: 829–880.

    Google Scholar 

  • Silkworth, Stacy A. 1990. “Quantity Variation in Open Quantity Contracts”. University of Pittsburg Law Review 51: 235–279.

    Google Scholar 

Cases

  • Aluminum Company of America v. Essex Group, Inc., 499 F. Supp. 53 (W.D.Pa. 1980).

    Google Scholar 

  • Amerada Hess v. Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc. 59 A.D.2d 110; 397 N.Y.S.2d 814; 96 A.L.R.3d 1263; 22 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. (Callaghan) 310 (1977).

    Google Scholar 

  • Bloor v. Falstaff 601 F. 2d 609 (2d Cir. 1979).

    Google Scholar 

  • Compania Naviera Asiatic v. The Burmah Oil Co. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in No. 74–2025 (S. D. N. Y. Apr. 27, 1977) (Frankel, J.)

    Google Scholar 

  • Feld v. Levy 37 N.Y.2d 466, 373 N.Y.S.2d 102, 335 N.E.2d 320 (N.Y. 1975).

    Google Scholar 

  • Laredo Hides Co. Inc. v. H & H Meat Products Co., Inc. 513 S. W. 2d 210 (1974).

    Google Scholar 

  • Missouri Furnace Co. v. Cochrane. 8 F. 463 (C. C. W. D. Pa. 1881).

    Google Scholar 

  • Northern Indiana Public Service Company v Carbon County Coal Co., 799 F. 2d 265 (7th Cir., 1986).

    Google Scholar 

  • Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. v. Amerada Hess Corporation, 67 Misc.2d 560, 324 N.Y.S.2d 494 (1971).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2005 Springer

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Goldberg, V.P. (2005). The Enforcement of Contracts and Private Ordering. In: Menard, C., Shirley, M.M. (eds) Handbook of New Institutional Economics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25092-1_20

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics