More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure

by Carl E. Schneider and Omri Ben-Shahar

Book Overview

How mandated disclosure took over the regulatory landscape--and why it failed

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691170886
• ISBN13: 9780691170886
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"