Contract and organisation: legal analysis in the light of economic and social theory

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- I. Introduction -- Sociological Jurisprudence and Legal Economics: Risks and Rewards / DAINTITH, TERENCE / TEUBNER, GUNTHER -- II. General Framework -- Law as an Instrument of Rational Practice / ALBERT, HANS -- Social Science Models in Economic Law / WIETHÖLTER, RUDOLF -- Where the Legal Action is: Critical Legal Studies and Empiricism / TRUBEK, DAVID M. -- III. Contract -- The Use of Economics to Elucidate Legal Concepts: The Law of Contract / HARRIS, DONALD R. / VELJANOVSKI, CENTO G. -- Some Notes on the Economic Analysis of Contract Law / ROMANI, FRANCO -- Neo-Institutional Economic Theory: Issues of Landlord and Tenant Law / SCHMID, A. ALLAN -- Quality Regulation in Consumer Goods Markets: Theoretical Concepts and Practical Examples / JOERGES, CHRISTIAN -- The Design and Performance of Long-Term Contracts / DAINTITH, TERENCE -- IV. Organisation -- The Contribution of Economics to Legal Analysis: The Concept of the Firm / FARJAT, GERARD -- Potential and Limits of Economic Analysis: The Constitution of the Firm / SCHANZE, ERICH -- From Old to New Monism: An Approach to an Economic Theory of the „Constitution“ of the Firm / KRAUSE, DETLEF -- Codetermination and Property Rights Theory / GOTTHOLD, JÜRGEN -- Industrial Democracy Through Law? Social Functions of Law in Institutional Innovations / TEUBNER, GUNTHER -- Federal Aspects of Corporate Law and Economic Theory / BUXBAUM, RICHARD M . -- Authors' Biographical Sketches -- Index