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A Commentary on Leff, Injury, Ignorance and Spite-The Dynamics of Coercive Collection
Leff, Arthur
Leff, Arthur
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Abstract
The major problem (there are others) with Leff's paper arises, I think, out of the particular thinness of its empirical backing. Leff's writing theory is clear enough, at least to the careful reader. He was obviously struck by the fact that with respect to all forms of collection (which he defined roughly as "bringing about the completion of partially executed transactions") the applicable substantive law and the available procedures, both legal and economic, were formally constant and bilaterally symmetrical. But in fact the collection process seemed to work very differently in different distinguishable contexts.