Legal rules are to be judged by the structure of incentives they establish and the consequences of people altering their behavior in response to those incentives. (David Friedman)

Legal rules are to be judged by the structure of incentives they establish and the consequences of people altering their behavior in response to those incentives.

David Friedman

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