- Introduction
- Part I: Some Concepts
- 1. The Net Profits Puzzle
- Part II: Consideration
- 2. Reading Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon with Help from the Kewpie Dolls
- 3. Mutuality and the Jobber’s Requirements: Middleman to the World
- 4. Satisfaction Clauses: Consideration without Good Faith
- 5. Postscript on Freedom from Contract
- Part III: Interpretation
- 6. Discretion in Long-Term Open Quantity Contracts: Reining in Good Faith
- 7. In Search of Best Efforts: Reinterpreting Bloor v. Falstaff
- 8. Columbia Nitrogen v. Royster: Do as They Say, Not as They Do
- 9. The “Battle of the Forms”: Fairness, Efficiency, and the Best-Shot Rule
- Part IV: Remedies
- 10. Campbell v. Wentz: The Case of the Walking Carrots
- 11. Expectation Damages and Property in the Price
- 12. The Middleman’s Damages: Lost Profits or the Contract–Market Differential
- 13. An Economic Analysis of the Lost-Volume Retail Seller
- 14. Consequential Damages
- 15. A Reexamination of Glanzer v. Shepard: Surveyors on the Tort–Contract Boundary
- Part V: Option to Terminate
- 16. Bloomer Girl Revisited, or How to Frame an Unmade Picture
- 17. Bloomer Girl: A Postscript
- 18. Wasserman v. Township of Middletown: The Penalty Clause That Wasn’t
- Part VI: Impossibility, Related Doctrines, and Price Adjustment
- 19. Price Adjustment in Long-Term Contracts
- 20. Impossibility and Related Excuses
- 21. Alcoa v. Essex: Anatomy of a Bungled Deal
- 22. Mineral Park v. Howard: The Irrelevance of Impracticability
- Concluding Thoughts
- Notes
- References
- Table of Cases
- Index
Framing Contract Law
An Economic Perspective
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