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This book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.S. legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions between economics and the law in such areas as corruption, business regulation, and federalism. It explains how the U.S. legal system works differently to those in most countries, with contradictory and hard-to-understand business regulations, tort laws that vary from state to state, and surprising judicial interpretations of ... More
Keywords: U.S. legal system, economics, law, corruption, business regulation, federalism, tort laws, litigation costs, economic growth, contracts
Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300175219 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300175219.001.0001 |
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