Geoffrey A. Manne •
December 17, 2010
Lynn Stout, writing in the Harvard Business Review’s blog, claims that hedge funds are uniquely “criminogenic” environments. (Not surprisingly, Frank Pasquale seems reflexively to approve)… . . .
Geoffrey A. Manne •
December 15, 2010
Steven Pearlstein at the Washington Post asks if it’s “Time to loosen Google’s grip.” The article is an analytical mess. Pearlstein is often a decent . . .
Geoffrey A. Manne •
December 14, 2010
There’s been much teeth-gnashing following yesterday’s ruling by a Virginia judge that the “individual mandate” portion of Obamacare is unconstitutional. Among many other places, see . . .
Joshua Wright •
December 14, 2010
Recent coverage of the A&P bankruptcy has alluded to its era of “dominance” in grocery retail, describing it as “the Wal-Mart of its day.” See . . .
Richard Thaler •
December 13, 2010
I have now had a chance to read through the contributions to this event and have a few thoughts to share. I cannot, of course, . . .
Joshua Wright •
December 11, 2010
Tiffany Joslyn provides a useful summary of the criminal provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act at the Federalist Society National Federal Initiatives Project. One of the . . .
In the brave new world contemplated by the advocates of government policies informed by behavioral law and economics, many more aspects of each individual’s life . . .
The behavioral economics research agenda is an ambitious one for several reasons. The first reason is that behavioral economics requires a theory “true” preferences aside . . .
Judd E. Stone •
December 7, 2010
Professors Henderson and Ribstein touch on two theoretical failures of the behavioralist movement which both reveal the prematurity of ‘behaviorally-informed’ regulatory proposals: the behavioralist assumptions . . .