# kaal:claim:3782210-003

**Claim.** Strict legal enforcement is an inefficient remedy for opportunism because every unit of energy devoted to policing is energy that could instead have been used to cooperate productively.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Strict legal enforcement is not efficient, because all energies devoted to policing are ener- gies that could be used to cooperate productively.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization* (2021), Chapter. Reputation, page 2

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, The Importance of Reputation for the Evolution of Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782210

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**Failure mode.** Policing overhead drain  (family: enforcement-gap)

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, compliance, economics

**Keywords.** legal-enforcement, policing-costs, efficiency, opportunism

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