Social Norms And The Law
Preprint
- 1 January 1997
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
After one eats in a restaurant, that one has to leave a tip is a social norm, and that one has to pay for the food is law. As is evident from this both norms aKeywords
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