The Contingent Body

Contingent and Non-Contingent Rewards in the Employment Relationship

Contingent Power in Contingent Work: Must the Show Go On?

How does a union manage to operate with any bargaining strength when its members‟ work is individualised, infrequent, short-term and unpredictable? Where there is permanent labour oversupply, the closed shop is unlawful, and most members want to work at this specific occupation so much that they will often effectively pay to work? How does an apparently toxic combination of structural and ideol...

The Development of Contingent

Contingent Capital: The Trigger Problem

Price triggers in contingent capital bonds are analyzed. Pervasiveness of multiple equilibria and nonexistence of equilibrium in theoretical models is illustrated. Evidence of these problems from market experiments is summarized. Possible solutions are evaluated.

Contingent Identity

It is widely held that if an object a is identical (or non-identical) to an object b, then it is necessary that a is identical (non-identical) to b. This view is supported by an argument from Leibniz’s Law and by a popular conception of de re modality. On the other hand, there are good reasons to allow for contingent identity. Various alternative accounts of de re modality have been developed t...