Contractual knowledge :  one hundred years of legal experimentation in global markets / 
edited by Gr?egoire Mallard and J?er¡ome Sgard. 
 - Cambridge, United Kingdom :  Cambridge University Press,  (c)2016. 
 - 1 online resource (xix, 403 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Cambridge studies in law and society .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Contractual knowledge: one hundred years of legal experimentation in global markets; Part I Contractual and sovereign debt obligations: the evolution of contractual provisions; 2 Financial markets, international organizations and conditional lending: a long-term perspective; 3 When governments write contracts: policy and expertise in sovereign debt markets 4 Market rules: social conventions, legal fictions, and the organization of sovereign debt markets in the long twentieth centuryPart II Consolidating international organizations: the mobilization of social capital and the standardization of interpretive processes; 5 A tale of three cities: the construction of international commercial arbitration; 6 Constructing a transatlantic marketplace of disputes on the symbolic foundations of international justice; 7 The duty to repair in practice: the hundred years history of a legal concept 8 The changing ideas about valuation mechanisms in the interwar period: Toeplitz, Marlio and the 'Great transformation'Part III Structuring fields: market dominance, complementarity and differentiation in complex institutional ecologies; 9 The rise and fall of trade and monetary legal orders: from the interwar period to today's global imbalances; 10 Credit ratings and global economic governance: non-price valuation in financial markets; 11 Contracts and private law in the emerging ecology of international lawmaking; Index 
<br/><br/> At a micro level, this collection unveils the contractual knowledge that led to the globalization of markets over the last century. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781316487280 9781316442876 9781316487716 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Export sales contracts--History.<br/>Contracts--History.<br/>Contracts--Interpretation and construction.<br/>Contracts (International law)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K1030  / .C668 2016