More than You Wanted to Know (ebook)

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"Ben-Shahar and Schneider have written what for a long time will be the definitive work on regulations that require sellers of goods and services to provide information about their products that sellers will not voluntarily provide but that the regulators believe will help the consumers to make intelligent choices. Apparently these 'mandated disclosures' are ignored by the vast majority of consumers. The authors are unrelievedly negative about the efficacy of mandated disclosures. They are right to be. Their analysis is clear, comprehensive, and convincing."--Judge Richard A. Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

"I read this book with rapt attention. It is magnificent. Ben-Shahar and Schneider have done a masterful job of setting out their case clearly, plainly, and persuasively."--Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania

"Ben-Shahar and Schneider present a compelling argument. They contend that mandated disclosure is a policy failure that is not easily remedied."--Zev J. Eigen, Northwestern University

"Significant and original. The research is prodigious. I am not aware of another treatment of disclosure that crosses disciplinary lines to this extent, and the analysis is all the more worthwhile for it. Ben-Shahar and Schneider show how disclosures have become pervasive in our society yet are largely ignored and misunderstood."--Clayton Gillette, New York University

"Because consumers continue to overlook mandated disclosures, opting instead to scroll quickly through screen after screen of seemingly irrelevant legalese, this book by Ben-Shahar and Schneider is especially pertinent."--Choice

Omri Ben-Shahar is the Leo and Eileen Herzel Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. His books include Boilerplate: The Foundation of Market Contracts. Carl E. Schneider is the Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and professor of medicine at the University of Michigan. His books include The Practice of Autonomy: Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions.0Preface ix
Part I - The Ubiquity of Mandated Disclosure 1
Chapter 1 Introduction 3
Chapter 2 Complex Decisions, Complex Disclosures 14
Chapter 3 The Failure of Mandated Disclosure 33
Part I - Why Disclosures Fail 55
Chapter 4 "Whatever": The Psychology of Mandated Disclosure 59
Chapter 5 Reading Disclosures 79
Chapter 6 The Quantity Question 94
Chapter 7 From Disclosure to Decision 107
Part III - Can Mandated Disclosure Be Saved? 119
Chapter 8 Make It Simple? 121
Chapter 9 The Politics of Disclosure 138
Chapter 10 Producing Disclosures 151
Chapter 11 At Worst, Harmless? 169
Chapter 12 Conclusion: Beyond Disclosurism 183
Notes 197
Index 225