More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure /
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, th...
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 to make better choices? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400850389 140085038X 1306528747 9781306528740 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
