Mises Wire
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William L. Anderson
Anthony G. Stair
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[Adapted from “Protected Lying: How the Legal Doctrine of ‘Absolute Immunity’ Has Created a ‘Lemons Problem’ in American Criminal Courts” in the Spring 2018 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics .] In his famous speech to a gathering of federal prosecutors in 1940, Attorney General Robert Jackson reminded his audience that their job