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Robert W. Crandall

Robert W. Crandall is an adjunct senior fellow at the Technology Policy Institute. His current research focuses on antitrust and regulatory issues in the telecommunications sector. He is also a nonresident senior fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution.

Robert was acting director, deputy director, and assistant director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability. He has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

He has taught economics at Northwestern University, MIT, the University of Maryland, George Washington University, and the Stanford in Washington program. He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

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Robert Crandall on It Is Time to Move Ahead with Deregulation

Robert W. Crandall Sep 20, 2011

As we approach the end of this Symposium, I am struck by how much consensus exists on this subject. Of course, we are not conducting this exercise under the auspices of the ABA. Nevertheless, there is sufficient intellectual backing for a major push to begin the deregulation of legal services. Despite warnings that this is ... Robert Crandall on It Is Time to Move Ahead with Deregulation

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Robert Crandall on We Need More Lawyers!

Robert W. Crandall Sep 19, 2011

Several years ago, when Cliff Winston and I began looking at the incomes earned by lawyers, we were struck by several facts. First, after accounting for age, years of education, experience and various other demographic influences, we found that the income premium earned by lawyers had increased by about 50 percent between 1975 and 2004, ... Robert Crandall on We Need More Lawyers!

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