Equity, Efficiency, and Ethics in Remedies for Breach of Contract - Theory and Experimental Evidence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book analyzes the conflict that emerges between parties after a breach of contract and how different legal remedies can best reduce conflict. Causes for conflict include equity, efficiency, and ethical reasons that parties might consider and use to blame the other or to justify breach. In the end, if not resolved through apologies or renegotiation, conflict leads to aggrievement and behavioral reactions in form of retaliation by the victim against the promisor in breach. The book provides empirical evidence from laboratory experiments for how individuals react to perceived wrongful acts such as breach of contract and for the function of legal remedies to reduce retaliation by disappointed promisees in providing them compensation. It reveals how the inequality in the outcome, and not the inefficiency of breach of contract, causes aggrievement and retaliation by victims. The book concludes with a comparative law and economic analysis of remedies for breach of contract adopted in different leading jurisdictions, with important normative implications for the American insistence on expectation damages, the French expansion of specific performance with "astreinte", the German junction of specific performance, expectation damages, and disgorgement damages, and the British timid acceptance of partial disgorgement damages. The book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and students of economics and law, interested in a better understanding of remedies for breach of contract.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	International Law and Economics
Release date:	December 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Sergio Mittlaender
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-110803-7
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Law > Other areas of law > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Private, property, family law > Contract law Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International economic & trade law > General Promotions
LSN:	3-03-110803-5
Barcode:	9783031108037

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