8 Role and Significance of Contract in Society

The market's law (every transaction's skeleton — from the vegetable stall to the hydropower PPA); the cooperation-technology (the strangers' trust — contract as society's * trust machine); the planning instrument (the future's present governance: the long-term investment contracts); the state's own tool (procurement, concessions, the public-private partnerships); and the development dimension (Nepal's remittance-economy, the informality's documentation gap — the contract's social depth).