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Jacoby, Melissa B. Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal

Journal of Economic Literature 2025 63(2), 696-699
Anat R. Admati of Stanford University reviews “Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal” by Melissa B. Jacoby. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the impact of the bankruptcy system, promoting the argument that the present structure of reorganization cases has compromised policy objectives distant from bankruptcy's intended domain.”