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Do Lawyers Impair Economic Growth?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1992 

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References

1 The transactions costs metaphor is sometimes applied so loosely and in contexts so far removed from market transactions that gave rise to the metaphor that any costs beyond the costs that would be incurred even in a Robinson Crusoe society are called transactions costs. On this broad and analytically blunt definition of transactions costs, everything lawyers do would either increase or decrease transactions costs.Google Scholar

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5 Hardin, Russell, Collective Action (Baltimore: Published for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).Google Scholar

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7 E.g., 9 Scandinavian Pol Stud. (March 1986).Google Scholar