The Real and the Paper Deal: Empirical Pictures of Relationships, Complexity and the Urge for Transparent Simple Rules

Implicit Dimensions of Contract: Discrete, Relational and Network Contracts

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 51-102

  Macaulay, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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