CONTRACTS. ECONOMIC, MORAL AND LEGAL FOUNDATIONS

(Palestra, 2020)

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“Building up each idea from its intellectual basis and expressing it concisely with clarity and goldsmith’s detail, Freddy Escobar guides us through a complete journey that explores the economic, moral and legal foundations of contracts. His book is fascinating for everyone who appreciates and integrative and multidisciplinary approach, especially if the reader seeks to understand how our society functions and how institutional limits affect the way we related with others. As stimulating as it is, CONTRACTS is full of proposals, interpretations and new ways to understand and solve the dilemmas we have to face as a developing society”

Martín Naranjo

Former Superintendent of Banking, Insurance and Private Pension Funds

President of ASBANC’s Board of Directors

“Every legal institution must respond to what society needs in each place and historical moment. This can only be possible if we rightly know its deeper foundations and the ways in which we can approach them. Freddy Escobar knows the importance of this method; he is aware about this method’s merits and he anticipates them in the very title of the book. After the doing that, Freddy offers us a work on Contracts in which precisely their philosophical foundations play a critical role. Explaining concepts in a fine and unusually deep way, he shows us how Contracts allow the interaction of economic efficiency and moral values, as well as what are the solutions offered by the legal system to the diverse problems that the aforementioned method reveals. The author has not neglected language. He writes with clarity and simplicity, but without compromising precision and adequacy, delivering an easy way to understand complex concepts; he is aware that adornment and extreme sophistication do not mean erudition. The result cannot be better: Freddy Escobar presents us a deep, modern and readable work on Contracts, which can be consulted by practitioners, academics and students”

Hugo Forno

Principal Professor at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Partner at Garrigues