More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure / Omri Ben-Shahar, Carl E. Schneider.
2014
KF1609 .B46 2014eb
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Title
More than you wanted to know : the failure of mandated disclosure / Omri Ben-Shahar, Carl E. Schneider.
Author
Ben-Shahar, Omri, author.
ISBN
9781400850389 (electronic book)
9780691161709
9780691161709
Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations
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KF1609 .B46 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
346.7302/1
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?
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Includes index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-223) and index.
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Schneider, Carl, 1948- author.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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.
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.