Avast secureline server listHow Contracting Can Go Wrong The second-order, norm-compatibility norm emerges in any market that sufficiently closely approximates the ideals of perfect competition and contractual norm completeness.As long as the first-order norms are value optimal, the second-order norm ensures free and informed consent to standard-form contracts, even though we do not read them and would not fully understand them if we did.As long as the first-order norms are value optimal, the second-order norm ensures free and informed consent to standard-form contracts, even though we do not read them and would not fully understand them if we did.