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Capital In Chaos: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis And The Social Capital Response , Raymond H. Brescia
Capital In Chaos: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis And The Social Capital Response , Raymond H. Brescia
Cleveland State Law Review
Can law create trust? Can law make people more trustworthy? These are some of the questions posed by scholars across the political spectrum interested in the impact of law on society. There is no shortage of arguments on both sides of these questions: that law can be a tool for promoting trust, or destroying it. This Article is an attempt to address these questions through an analysis of a single market, to explore the interplay between law and trust in a situation of abject market failure: the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. Initially, I will introduce the concept …