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Honoring the Honorable Joshua Wright: Commemorating Josh Wright’s Term at the FTC

Truth on the Market Blog Symposium
TOPIC: Antitrust & Consumer Protection

Josh Wright’s term as an FTC Commissioner ended on Monday, August 24, 2015.  Truth on the Market hosted a symposium —  a collection of commentaries and contributions — honoring Josh’s tenure at the FTC.  We invited contributions from a range of luminaries, including academics, practitioners, former FTC officials, and the like.

See the TOTM symposium here

Series Posts
(in the order of posting)

Richard Epstein, A Tribute to Joshua Wright

Jon Jacobson and Ryan Maddock, Joshua Wright’s Dissenting Statements on Merger Efficiencies

Thomas Hazlett, Thomas Hazlett on Joshua Wright’s Tenure 

Keith Hylton, Keith Hylton on Joshua Wright’s Tenure

The Honorable Ajit Pai, Ajit Pai on Joshua Wright’s Tenure

Alden Abbott, Josh Wright, Commissioner-Provocateur

Robert H. Lande, Joshua Wright: Embodying the Spirit of Bipartisanship 

Terry Calvani & Jan Rybnicek, The Legacy of Joshua Wright

The Honorable F. Scott Kieff, Commissioner Joshua Wright: Colleague, Gentleman, Scholar, Public Servant 

Dan Crane, An Economist’s Touch: Josh Wright’s FTC Legacy

Thom Lambert, Josh Wright and the Limits of Antitrust 

Tim Muris, Tim Muris on Joshua Wright’s Tenure

Berin Szoka, Josh Wright’s Unfinished Legacy: Reforming FTC Consumer Protection Enforcement

Michael Baye, Imagine

Geoff Manne, The Essence of Josh Wright’s FTC Tenure Was to Ensure that Benefits Outweigh Costs, the Rest is Commentary

Focus Areas

FTC
August 24, 2015

A Tribute to Joshua Wright

Richard Epstein
A recent story in the Wall Street Journal described Josh Wright as the “FTC’s most conservative commissioner.” It is a sign of today’s politicized environment that this label is used as a substitute for serious substantive analysis of the particular positions that Wright has taken relative to the other commissioners.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
August 24, 2015

Thomas Hazlett on Joshua Wright

Thomas Hazlett
by Thomas W. Hazlett, H.H. Macaulay Endowed Chair in Economics at Clemson University Josh Wright is a tour de force. He has broken the mold for a Washington regulator — and created…
August 24, 2015

Keith Hylton on Joshua Wright

Keith Hylton
by Keith N. Hylton, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, Boston University School of Law When I first heard that Josh had resigned from the FTC, I wondered if the news would cause…
August 25, 2015

Ajit Pai on Joshua Wright

Ajit Pai
by Ajit Pai, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission I was saddened to learn that Commissioner Joshua Wright is resigning from the Federal Trade Commission. Commissioner Wright leaves the agency with a tremendous…
August 25, 2015

Josh Wright, Commissioner-Provocateur

Alden Abbott
Much ink will be spilled at this site lauding Commissioner Joshua (Josh) Wright’s many contributions to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and justly so. I will focus narrowly on Josh…
August 25, 2015

The Legacy of Joshua Wright

Terry Calvani
by Terry Calvani, of counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and formerly Acting-Chairman and Commissioner of the FTC, & Jan Rybnicek, associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, and former attorney advisor to Commissioner Joshua Wright. When…
August 27, 2015

Imagine

Michael Baye
by Michael Baye, Bert Elwert Professor of Business at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and former Director of the Bureau of Economics, FTC Imagine a world where competition and consumer protection…
August 24, 2015

Tim Muris on Joshua Wright

Timothy Muris
As the premier Antitrust scholar of his generation, Josh Wright’s appointment to the Federal Trade Commission promised to be noteworthy. He did not disappoint, having one of the most important and memorable tenures of any non-Chair over the 40 years that I have followed the agency closely.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection