August 27, 2015

The essence of Josh Wright’s FTC tenure was to ensure that benefits outweigh costs; the rest is commentary

Geoffrey A. Manne

As the organizer of this retrospective on Josh Wright’s tenure as FTC Commissioner, I have the (self-conferred) honor of closing out the symposium. When Josh was confirmed I wrote that:…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

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 26, 2015

Josh Wright and the Limits of Antitrust

Thomas Lambert

Alden Abbott and I recently co-authored an article, forthcoming in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, in which we examined the degree to which the Supreme Court and the…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 26, 2015

Commissioner Joshua Wright: Colleague, Gentleman, Scholar, Public Servant

Scott Kieff

by Hon. F. Scott Kieff, Commissioner, International Trade Commission (on leave from academic post as Fred C. Stevenson Research Professor at George Washington University School of Law) I join all the…

August 26, 2015

An Economist’s Touch: Josh Wright’s FTC Legacy

Dan Crane

by Dan Crane, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and Frederick Paul Furth, Sr. Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School The FTC was the brain child of Progressive Era technocrats who…

August 26, 2015

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

Berin Szoka

by Berin Szoka, President, TechFreedom Josh Wright will doubtless be remembered for transforming how FTC polices competition. Between finally defining Unfair Methods of Competition (UMC), and his twelve dissents and multiple speeches about…

August 26, 2015

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

Berin Szoka

by Berin Szoka, President, TechFreedom Josh Wright will doubtless be remembered for transforming how FTC polices competition. Between finally defining Unfair Methods of Competition (UMC), and his twelve dissents and multiple speeches about…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

August 25, 2015

Joshua Wright: Embodying the Spirit of Bipartisanship

Robert Lande

by Robert H. Lande, Venable Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law There’s an old saying, “It’s better to light a single bipartisan candle than to curse the darkness caused by…

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…