Anthony G. Stair

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Bureaucracy, Legal Immunity, and Prosecutorial Abuse

05/25/2019 Mises Wire William L. Anderson Anthony G. Stair

[Adapted from “Protected Lying: How the Legal Doctrine of ‘Absolute Immunity’ Has Created a ‘Lemons Problem’ in American Criminal Courts” in the Spring 2018 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian...

Protected Lying: How the Legal Doctrine of “Absolute Immunity” Has Created a “Lemons Problem” in American Criminal Courts

08/27/2018 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics William L. Anderson Anthony G. Stair

ABSTRACT: In his famous 1970 paper that raised issues about “lemons” problems in markets in which asymmetric information places at least one party to an exchange (usually buyers) at a big disadvantage...

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