TY - BOOK ID - 80832060 TI - American illness : essays on the rule of law PY - 2013 SN - 9780300195071 0300195079 9780300175219 0300175213 PB - New Haven : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law KW - American essays. KW - American literature KW - Anglo-American law KW - Law, Anglo-American KW - Law -- United States.. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80832060 AB - This provocative 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-and explains how our system works differently from the one in most countries, with contradictory and hard to understand business regulations, tort laws that vary from state to state, and surprising judicial interpretations of clearly written contracts. This imposes far heavier litigation costs on American companies and hampers economic growth. ER -