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My background is in consumer protection. I’ve worked at the Federal Trade Commission. I worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). And so that’s what I’m going to talk about in my lens here.
This is a great book. This is a really powerful, great book. I just want to make that really clear, and I mean that from somebody coming at it from a consumer protection perspective. This is not just a book about investment crowdfunding. This is maybe the best book I’ve read so far on just how to think about consumer protection in the internet age. Because of the way Schwartz focuses on private ordering, and on different ways of transmitting information, this book is a model for thinking about the whole economy and consumer protection regulation—from occupational licensing to you name it.
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