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Mathematical Elegance is Not Economics: Another Implication of the Nobel Prize in Economics?
Lots of good reactions to the Nobel for interested readers. This post from Lynne Kiesling and this from Peter Klein (Williamson’s last student) are a good place to start as is just about anything over at Organizations and Markets the last few days. My earlier thoughts are here, including some disappointment that the prize was ... Mathematical Elegance is Not Economics: Another Implication of the Nobel Prize in Economics?
Welcome New TOTM Blogger Mike Sykuta
TOTM is extremely excited to announce the latest addition to our team, Mike Sykuta. Readers might know Mike from his guest blogging stints at Organization and Markets. Or perhaps making Brad DeLong’s Hall of Honor. Mike joins J.W. Verret as the second addition to blog in the last week, and we hope to announce some ... Welcome New TOTM Blogger Mike Sykuta
December 6 Heritage Foundation Program on IP Rights, Competition, and Due Process Overseas: Attend or Watch
In recent years, aggressive antitrust enforcement overseas has increasingly targeted some of America’s most successful and innovative companies, such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm. Inadequate foreign due process and insufficient protection for American intellectual property rights are a feature of many foreign antitrust actions, which threaten to undermine key American producers – harming U.S. ... December 6 Heritage Foundation Program on IP Rights, Competition, and Due Process Overseas: Attend or Watch
Ribstein & Lipshaw Unincorporated Business Entities 2011 Supplement
The 2011 Supplement to Ribstein & Lipshaw, Unincorporated Business Entities (4th Edition) is now available in Word and Pdf. It will be posted on the Lexis website in the next couple of weeks. If you want to teach the law of business associations as many of your students will actually be practicing it — the cutting ... Ribstein & Lipshaw Unincorporated Business Entities 2011 Supplement
Morgenson’s DPA scandal
It’s not easy coming up with scandals all the time. Some days there just isn’t a new scandal to report. But that space has to get filled somehow. The NYT’s Gretchen Morgenson often finds herself in this position. Her scandal for yesterday, reported as usual with Louise Story (I’ll just start calling them Morgenstory), was about ... Morgenson’s DPA scandal
Will the Public Insurance Plan Be a Predator?
Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank inhabits a simple little world in which private enterprise, in its relentless pursuit of profit (i.e., charging more for something than it’s worth), is consistently a force for evil, and government, populated by wise and benevolent folk who have eschewed riches in favor of public service (see, e.g., Ted ... Will the Public Insurance Plan Be a Predator?
Cat groomers and lawyers
What do cat groomers, tattoo artists, tree trimmers, music therapist, locksmiths, caterers, hair stylists, florists, flower arrangers, interior designers, private detectives, hearing-aid fitters, conveyor-belt operators, frozen dessert retailers, hair-salon “shampoo specialists,” glaziers, librarians, nutritionists, respiratory therapists, athletic trainers, boxing promoters, eyebrow threaders, acupuncturists, tattoo artists, massage therapists for humans and for horses, wig servicers, karate ... Cat groomers and lawyers
FTC Grocery Antitrust Conference
The FTC’s Bureau of Economics has scheduled a conference that looks very interesting and concerns a subject near and dear to my heart: antitrust in the supermarket! Sadly, I will not be able to attend as I am going to take a little bit of a paper grading/ battery re-charge vacation for the next few ... FTC Grocery Antitrust Conference
The next Silicon Valley?
Don’t laugh. It’s got a major international airport, cheap housing, major league sports and culture. It’s close to a world class university, great natural areas and another country. The urban pioneers who enriched other cities are increasingly priced out of them, and are mobile. State and local politicians must actually improve the place in order ... The next Silicon Valley?
Scandal of the day: a businessman in Congress
The NYT reports on a new scandal it’s discovered. Mike Thompson lives in St. Helena, California and represents it in Congress. Now, I recently spent three days in St. Helena so I can testify to what you see when you go there: grapes (at the left is the view I woke up to every day). ... Scandal of the day: a businessman in Congress
O'Hara and Ribstein's The Law Market
You can now purchase it in hard copy, or on Kindle, and follow the action at the Conglomerate Book Club in March. I’ll be starting it on my Kindle on an airplane this afternoon.
Tax Competition, the Burden of Excessive Taxation, and the European Union’s Apple “State Aids” Case
Government subsidies that selectively favor a particular firm or firms may substantially distort competition within an industry, thereby skewing trading terms, reducing efficiency, and harming consumer welfare. To its credit, the European Union (EU) seeks to stamp out distortive state aid, as explained by the EU’s administrative and law enforcement arm, the European Commission (EC): ... Tax Competition, the Burden of Excessive Taxation, and the European Union’s Apple “State Aids” Case
