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The Independent Review
Volume 2 Number 4
Spring 1998


Quality-and-Safety Assurance: How Voluntary Social Processes Remedy Their Own Shortcomings
By Daniel B. Klein

Consumer-protection laws and regulations are often rationalized on the grounds that without them the public would make uninformed or foolish choices. But the risks arising from imperfect knowledge prompt consumers and entrepreneurs to discover new ways to assure quality and safety, thus undercutting the case for government regulation.




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