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Ribstein on Business, Film and Law
Wrapping up what looks like a very interesting conference at the University of Illinois on the interaction between business, film, and law, Larry Ribstein shares some thoughts in an excellent post. Readers of Ideoblog will be familiar with Professor Ribstein’s take on how artists’ negative views of capitalists find their way into film. In summing ... Ribstein on Business, Film and Law
Glaxo/Pfizer HIV Drug Collaboration
There’s an interesting story in the WSJ about a merger between the HIV-drug businesses at Glaxo and Pfizer. Some details from the story: Examples of cooperation among drug giants are unusual — Pfizer and Glaxo are the world’s top two drug companies by sales, respectively — since big pharmaceutical companies compete to sell products, attract ... Glaxo/Pfizer HIV Drug Collaboration
Randy Picker on the Google Book Settlement
Randy Picker has posted The Google Book Settlement: A New Orphan Works Monopoly? to SSRN. I have not been following the antitrust issues related to the settlement as closely as I should be and so I’m really looking forward to reading this. Here is the abstract: This paper considers the proposed settlement agreement between Google ... Randy Picker on the Google Book Settlement
Call for Papers: FTC/Northwestern University Second Annual Microeconomics Conference
The Federal Trade Commission and the Searle Center at Northwestern are hosting the second annual Microeconomics Conference. The conference will take place on November 19th and 20th at the FTC. Here’s the conference announcement and call for papers: The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics, Northwestern University’s Searle Center on Law, Regulation and Economic Growth, ... Call for Papers: FTC/Northwestern University Second Annual Microeconomics Conference
"Goldman reports $1.8 billion profit"
Cnn.com tells us the good news that “Goldman reports $1.8 billion profit,” but the totality of the information in the cnn.com article strikes me as mildly curious. While announcing that “Goldman reports $1.8 billion profit,” the article points out that Goldman needed $10 B in TARP funds only a few months ago. Yet now Goldman is ... "Goldman reports $1.8 billion profit"
GMU/Microsoft Conference on the Law & Economics of Innovation
UPDATE 3: It just keeps getting better. Now we’ve added Mike Baye, formerly Director of the Bureau of Economics at the FTC, now returned to his post at Indiana. He’ll be moderating and I’m sure commenting on many of the papers. UPDATE 2: And now Susan DeSanti, newly-appointed Director of the Office of Policy and ... GMU/Microsoft Conference on the Law & Economics of Innovation
Dont Call It A Comeback
When I came onto the job market in 2004, a number of advisers told me that I should not market myself as an “antitrust guy.” The prevailing view on the job market was that “antitrust was dead.” This perception was conveyed one way or another in interviews or conversations with folks in the legal academy. ... Dont Call It A Comeback
Is the Chicago School Really Dead? How Do You Know?
Answer: not by a long shot. Not in the Supreme Court. Not in the empirical economics literature. But perhaps according to at least one FTC Commissioner in the new FTC annual report: Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch believes the current financial crisis has undermined the Chicago school of economics that has so heavily influenced antitrust enforcement ... Is the Chicago School Really Dead? How Do You Know?
The Future of Empirical Legal Scholarship
Thoughts from John Pfaff (Fordham) here and here. And here is an excerpt from his first post laying out some of the problems and challenges facing the empirical legal studies movement: So what are the problems we face? 1. An explosion in empirical work. More empirical work is, at some level, a good thing: how ... The Future of Empirical Legal Scholarship
TOTM Symposium Wrap Up
I’d like to formally thank Mike Carrier, Geoff Manne, Phil Weiser, Dan Crane, Brett Frischmann, Scott Kieff and Dennis Crouch for participating in the first TOTM symposium on Mike’s book: Innovation for the 21st Century: Harnessing the Power of Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law. Thanks also to Dennis for cross-posting at PatentlyO. Each of the ... TOTM Symposium Wrap Up
Did the Chicago School Overshoot the Mark?
I’ve posted to SSRN a new essay entitled Overshot the Mark? A Simple Explanation of the Chicago School’s Influence on Antitrust. It is a book review of Robert Pitofsky’s recent volume How the Chicago School Overshot the Mark: The effect of Conservative Economic Analysis on U.S. Antitrust, and is forthcoming in Volume 5 of Competition ... Did the Chicago School Overshoot the Mark?
The Cousins Recruiting Saga Continues (Again)
It wasn’t too long ago that I blogged about the purported end of the Demarcus Cousins saga. For TOTM readers that want to catch up to speed, here is how things stood about a month ago: For those who haven’t, Cousins is a blue chip high school basketball recruit who has been bargaining hard with ... The Cousins Recruiting Saga Continues (Again)
