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Lawyers and Economic Growth—A Red Herring?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Philip Keefer
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , Fall 1992 , pp. 645 - 652
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1992 

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References

1 For a good textbook discussion of the evolution of liability standards, see Robert Cooter & Thomas Ulen, Law and Economics 421–62 (New York: Harper Collins, 1988).Google Scholar

2 Charles Epp, “Do Lawyers Impair Economic Growth?” 17 Law & Soc. Inquiry 585 (1992).Google Scholar

3 See Aucoin, Louis, “Current Status of the Legal System and the Rule of Law in Chad and Its Effect on the Private Sector” 25. IRIS Country Report No. 10, Oct. 1992.Google Scholar

4 On Malaysia, see Landa, Janet, “A Theory of the Ethnically Homogeneous Middle. man Group: An Institutional Alternative to Contract Law,” 10 J. Legal Stud. 349 (1981).Google Scholar