More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure / Omri Ben-Shahar, Carl E. Schneider.

9781400850389 (electronic book)
9780691161709

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.

©2014

English

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations

KF1609 .B46 2014eb

346.7302/1

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?

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