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  • Chapter 12 - Voluntary enslavement

  • Edited by Christian Coons, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Michael Weber, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
  • Book:
    Paternalism
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    14 February 2013, pp 231-246

  • Summary

    Abel is a poor man in a Third- World country. He gets by, barely, by acting as an all-purpose guide for rich Westerners on vacation. Baker, a very rich American, hires Abel as a guide and is very impressed with the multitude of skills Abel displays over the several days of their relationship. This chapter provides an Abel-Baker scenario, which raises the issue of contracting into slavery. Anthony Kronman assimilates voluntary enslavement to all contracts that call for the performance of personal services as opposed to the delivery of goods or money. There are several types of voluntarily acquired legally enforceable affirmative duties to perform services. Disappointment can occur whenever performance of a contract fails to achieve what the contractors believed would be achieved. The possibility of disappointment is surely no bar to the enforcement of promises, for that possibility attends all promissory obligations.