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More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure
Omri Ben-Shahar
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Description for More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure
Hardback. Perhaps no kind of regulation is more common or less useful than mandated disclosure - requiring one party to a transaction to give the other information. This book surveys the evidence and finds that mandated disclosure rarely works. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 color illus. BIC Classification: JPP; LNTU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Perhaps no kind of regulation is more common or less useful than mandated disclosure--requiring one party to a transaction to give the other information. It is the iTunes terms you assent to, the doctor's consent form you sign, the pile of papers you get with your mortgage. Reading the terms, the form, and the papers is supposed to equip you to choose your purchase, your treatment, and your loan well. More Than You Wanted to Know surveys the evidence and finds that mandated disclosure rarely works. But how could it? Who reads these disclosures? Who understands them? Who uses them ... Read more
Perhaps no kind of regulation is more common or less useful than mandated disclosure--requiring one party to a transaction to give the other information. It is the iTunes terms you assent to, the doctor's consent form you sign, the pile of papers you get with your mortgage. Reading the terms, the form, and the papers is supposed to equip you to choose your purchase, your treatment, and your loan well. More Than You Wanted to Know surveys the evidence and finds that mandated disclosure rarely works. But how could it? Who reads these disclosures? Who understands them? Who uses them ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691161709
SKU
V9780691161709
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About Omri Ben-Shahar
Omri Ben-Shahar is the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. His books include Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts. Carl E. Schneider is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and professor of medicine at the University of Michigan. His books include The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions.
Reviews for More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure
"Because consumers continue to overlook mandated disclosures, opting instead to scroll quickly through screen after screen of seemingly irrelevant legalese, this book by Ben-Shahar and Schneider is especially pertinent."
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