Collective Inaction and Investment: The Political Economy of Delay in Bankruptcy Reform

Scholarship

PUBLISHER

Emory Law Journal

DATE

2000

Steven D. Walt

Steven D. Walt, Collective Inaction and Investment: The Political Economy of Delay in Bankruptcy Reform, 49 Emory Law Journal 1211-1260 (2000).

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