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Signaling Or Reciprocating? A Response To Eric Posner's Law And Social Norms, Dan M. Kahan
Signaling Or Reciprocating? A Response To Eric Posner's Law And Social Norms, Dan M. Kahan
University of Richmond Law Review
There is an almost heretical disenchantment with law percolating within the legal academy. Conventional wisdom sees law as the natural solution to problems of collective action. When attaining some societal good-for example, a clean environment, a stock of useful technologies, a public education system, or a transportation infrastructure-depends on the willingness of individuals to behave in a manner that is not in their material interest, the law supplies incentives-such as tax abatements for nonpolluters, property rights for inventors, and punishments for tax cheats-that bring individual interests into alignment with collective ones. The problem, though, is that a regime of regulatory …