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In an ideal world, people read contracts before they sign them. In the real world, few people do so. And those who do try hard to read contracts, often do not fully understand them.
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De Geest, G. (2002). The Signing-Without-Reading Problem: An Analysis of the European Directive on Unfair Contract Terms. In: Schäfer, HB., Lwowski, HJ. (eds) Konsequenzen wirtschaftsrechtlicher Normen. Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts. Deutscher Universitätsverlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-81426-5_10
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