More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure

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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: Ben-Shahar, Omri (Author), Schneider, Carl, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014
Subjects:
Disclosure of information > Law and legislation > United States.
Consumer protection > Law and legislation > United States.
Decision making > United States.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Complex decisions, complex disclosures
  • The failure of mandated disclosure
  • "Whatever": the psychology of mandated disclosure
  • Reading disclosures
  • The quantity question
  • From disclosure to decision
  • Make it simple?
  • The politics of disclosure
  • Producing disclosures
  • At worst, harmless?
  • Conclusion : beyond disclosurism.

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