• rights and obligations of the parties. From an economic perspective, contract theory studies how economic actors can and do construct contractual arrangements...
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    In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority...
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    other party to the contract. Contract theory is a large body of legal theory that addresses normative and conceptual questions in contract law. One of the...
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  • parties regarding the future exchange of goods or services. Implicit contracts theory was first developed to explain why there are quantity adjustments (layoffs)...
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    related to corporate social responsibility, market economy, and social contract theory. The stakeholder view of strategy integrates a resource-based view...
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  • through Polity Press. This book is a seminal work which discusses how contract theory continues to affirm the patriarchy through methods of contractual submission...
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  • The nexus of contracts theory is an idea put forth by a number of economists and legal commentators (most notably Michael Jensen and William Meckling as...
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    society). The theory uses an updated form of Kantian philosophy and a variant form of conventional social contract theory. Rawls's theory of justice is...
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    In contract theory, mechanism design, and economics, an information asymmetry is a situation where one party has more or better information than the other...
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  • Social rights are rights arising from the social contract. For example, James Madison advocated that a right such as trial by jury arose neither from nature...
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  • external forces like the nudge theory, and relative forces like Adams' equity theory. The concept of psychological contract became more popular among researchers...
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  • Efficient contract theory suggests that in a strong-form efficient market, if a contract exists, then it must be efficient due to survivorship bias. For...
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    option contracts play an important role in the field of contract theory. In particular, Oliver Hart (1995, p. 90) has shown that option contracts can mitigate...
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  • grading in schools Contract killing Contract theory, in economics Contraction (disambiguation) Contractor (disambiguation) Design by contract, in computer programming...
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  • A complete contract is an important concept from contract theory. If the parties to an agreement could specify their respective rights and duties for...
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    Anglo-American universities with his 1971 book A Theory of Justice, which uses a version of social contract theory to answer fundamental questions about justice...
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  • In ethics, political philosophy, social contract theory, religion, and international law, the term state of nature describes the hypothetical way of life...
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    grows. In economic theory, the principal-agent approach (also called agency theory) is part of the field contract theory. In agency theory, it is typically...
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    Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy...
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    The theory of incentives: The principal-agent model. Princeton University Press. Bolton, Patrick; Dewatripont, Matthias (2005). Contract theory. MIT...
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  • but to remain on the sidelines. The author also critiques the theory of the social contract (J. Locke, T. Hobbes, J.-J. Rousseau and others), according...
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  • justifications for their existence (such as divine right, the theory of the social contract, etc.). Today, the modern nation state is the predominant form...
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    consideration (value) in a contract. This reflects classical contract theory, in which consideration was viewed as a formal aspect of a contract, so that a seal...
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  • Look up social contract in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Social contract is a broad class of theories that try to explain the ways in which people...
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  • economic theory, the field of contract theory can be subdivided in the theory of complete contracts and the theory of incomplete contracts. In contract law...
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    microeconomic theory is by taking consumer choice as primitive. This model of microeconomic theory is referred to as revealed preference theory. The theory of supply...
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  • is gathered prior to concluding what category individuals suit. In contract theory, the terms "screening models" and "adverse selection models" are often...
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  • growth and development. Azariadis originated and developed implicit contract theory. Azariadis studied engineering in the National Technical University...
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    the tradition of Francis Bacon, Locke is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political...
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