Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction, -- 2 How to Say Things with Promises -- 3 Falsehood and Responsibility -- 4 Why Promissory Fraud? -- 5 The Representation Inquiry: What Does a Promise Say? -- 6 The Veracity and Scienter Inquiries: Evidence of Falsity and Evidence of Culpability -- 7 The Landscape of Promissory Misrepresentation -- 8 False Promise: Insincere Promising as Crime -- 9 Teaching Promissory Fraud -- 10 Conclusion -- Appendix A: Draft Prestatement of the Law of Insincere Promising -- Appendix B: Promissory Fraud Abroad -- Notes -- Index
Summary
The authors explore what promises say from the perspectives of philosophy. economics & the law. They identity four chief mistakes that courts make in promissory fraud cases, & they offer a theory for how courts & practitioners should handle promissory fraud cases
