No Right to Perform a Contract?

No cure no pay: How to contract for software services

50% of all software projects are total failures and another 40% are partial failures according to widely quoted surveys in UK, USA and Norway. Large government projects in all 3 countries have been reported with spectacular failure and expense to taxpayers (Royal Academy of Engineering and British Computer Society 2004). What is the problem? Most discussions have centered on improving the softw...

Social Yes; Contract No

Social contract theory is incoherent and it does not work as desired. Among the most obvious disanalogies is that contracts are enforced by a third party, commonly the state. There is no such external enforcer for a constitution. Contractarian theorists typically ignore all such issues and use the metaphor of contract very loosely to ground a claim that citizens are morally obligated to defer t...

ESTEC Contract No . 8696

China's new Labour Contract Law: No harm to employment?

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In January 2008, China adopted a new labour contract law. This new law represents the ...

Contract No F61775-02-WE010: Final Report

1. We have developed a new hybrid technique embedding a quantum description of point defects in SiO2 inside a classical model of the infinite solid. Thus, we incorporate accurately long-range effects (lattice relaxations and dielectric effects). Whilst embedding has been employed previously in highly ionic systems, such as the alkali halides, this is the first successful implementation in a mix...