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Junk Social Science in the Medical Bankruptcy Debate
My GMU colleague Todd Zywicki and Gail Heriot (USD) have an op-ed in the Washington Times exposing Harvard Professors David Himmelstein and Elizabeth Warren’s study on medical debt and bankruptcy, presented to Congress earlier this week, as “one of the most misleading pieces of research ever placed before Congress — no small dishonor.” The punchline ... Junk Social Science in the Medical Bankruptcy Debate
2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
From the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Website: The Second Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies will be held at New York University School of Law in New York, New York on Friday November 9 and Saturday November 10, 2007. The conference will feature original empirical and experimental legal scholarship by leading scholars worldwide, from ... 2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
Dow Jones Board Action: Nice exam question
Does a bid for Dow Jones implicate Revlon duties? Can a board “just say no”? What if the Board says nothing, b/c they know a majority of their s/h will not vote for the acquisition? This is the stuff good Corporations or M&A exam questions are made of. Luckily, counsel to the Dow Jones Board must have paid ... Dow Jones Board Action: Nice exam question
A Response to Commissioner Harbour’s "Open Letter" on Leegin
Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour has sent the U.S. Supreme Court justices an “open letter” regarding the pending Leegin case. [HT: Danny Sokol.] Leegin, as regular TOTM readers know, will test the continued vitality of Dr. Miles, the 1911 decision making it per se illegal for manufacturers and retailers to agree on minimum retail ... A Response to Commissioner Harbour’s "Open Letter" on Leegin
Some Weekend Blog Reading
Some blogging that may be of interest to TOTM readers: Andrew Gelman (for it) v. Tyler Cowen (against it) on the American Economic Association’s decision to add 4 new quarterly journals. Michael Giberson (Knowledge Problem) and David Fischer (Antitrust Review) on the Sirius-XM Merger, a story Keith has been covering here at TOTM. VC’s Todd ... Some Weekend Blog Reading
Let Ethanol Fail
The recent State of the Union address, in which President Bush called for an almost 500% increase in alternative fuel consumption by 2017, once again turned the nation’s attention to the various elixirs that promise to make the U.S. “energy independent.” The closer we look, though, the less appealing the leading alternative fuel — ethanol ... Let Ethanol Fail
Lott v. Levitt: Low Stakes?
Michael Abramowicz over at Concurring Opinions has an interesting post about the ongoing litigation between economists John Lott and Steven Levitt. Lott’s suit alleges that Levitt defamed him in his recent book Freakonomics by suggesting that Lott’s research on the relation between guns and crime could not be “replicated” by other scholars and in a ... Lott v. Levitt: Low Stakes?
SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
FTC/ DOJ Section 2 Hearings Continue
The FTC/ DOJ Section 2 Hearings (aka Hearings on Section 2 of the Sherman Act: Single Firm Conduct as Related to Competition) continued earlier this week with a session on tying Wednesday featuring David Evans, Robin Cooper Feldman, Mark Popofsky, Donald Russell, Michael Waldman, and Robert Willig. This link contains presentation materials and will eventually, ... FTC/ DOJ Section 2 Hearings Continue
Wal-Mart: Alleviating Poverty Abroad, Lowering Prices at Home
Those of us who defend the right to outsource are frequently criticized for lacking compassion and for being concerned only with the bottom line. I’ll admit that profitability concerns generally motivate decisions to outsource (and most other business decisions), but I won’t concede that outsourcing imposes a net harm on the economically disadvantaged. If we’re ... Wal-Mart: Alleviating Poverty Abroad, Lowering Prices at Home
