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From Social Contract Theory to Sociable Contract Theory

Contemporary Pragmatism, 2014
1. IntroductionRawls's A Theory of Justice has been the dominant text in contemporary political philosophy for over 40 years. As described by Rawls, his project is founded upon the social contract tradition. Given the central import of contract in his analysis, it is surprising how little investigation of the concept of contract there has been.
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The theory of contracts

1987
This paper was presented at the World Congress of the Econometric Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmström
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A Theory of Delegated Contracting

2015
Delegated contracting describes a widely observable vertical contractual relationship where a top principal (program designer) hires an intermediary to offer a predesigned screening contract to a downstream agent who should produce a quantity depending on his true marginal cost type.
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The Contract Theory

2006
AbstractOne subsidiary aim of this book is to motivate a return to Consequentialism in political philosophy by highlighting its comparative advantage over its main contemporary liberal rival in the area of intergenerational justice: the Contract Theory. It explores both the contractarianism of David Gauthier and the liberal egalitarianism of John Rawls,
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The Contraction of Theory

1996
Abstract During the late 1960s and 1970s, the category of labor staged a series of profoundly significant, direct appearances within three leading conceptions of culture and communicative activity, clustering respectively around Althusserian structuralism, post-industrial theory, and post­ structuralism.
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The theory of contracts

1986
This paper was presented at the World Congress of the Econometric Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
Hart, Oliver D., Holmstrm, Bengt
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Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm

1991
Abstract “The Nature of the Firm” (together with Coase’s later paper, “The Problem of Social Cost”) has had an enormous influence on the development of research in the theory of organization, even if for a long time it was, in Coase’s words, “much cited and little used.” The situation has changed in the last ten to fifteen years ...
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