Michigan Law Review Volume 104 Issue 5 2006 The Return of Bargain: An Economic Theory of How Standard- Form Contracts Enable Cooperative Negotiation between Businesses and Consumers Jason Scott Johnston University of Pennsylvania Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr Part of the Consumer Protection Law Commons, and the Contracts Commons Recommended Citation Jason S. Johnston, The Return of Bargain: An Economic Theory of How Standard-Form Contracts Enable Cooperative Negotiation between Businesses and Consumers, 104 MICH. L. REV. 857 (2006). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol104/iss5/3 This Symposium is brought to you for free and open access by the Michigan Law Review at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE RETURN OF BARGAIN: AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF HOW STANDARD-FORM CONTRACTS ENABLE COOPERATIVE NEGOTIATION BET WEEN BUSINESSES AND CONSUMERSt Jason Scott Johnston* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 858 I. FROM CONTRACTS OF ADHESION TO MARKET ASSENT ............ 860 II. BARGAINING AROUND STANDARD-FORM TERMS: SOME EVIDENCE ....................................................................... 864 A. Hospital Bills......................................... ...........................