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Who is Pressuring Antitrust? A Response to Wright
[Jonathan Baker (American University, currently on leave at the Federal Communications Commission where he is Chief Economist) has written the following response to Josh’s earlier post commenting on Baker’s forthcoming article: Preserving a Political Bargain: The Political Economy of the Non-Interventionist Challenge to Monopolization Enforcement. Eds.] Thanks to Josh for engaging with my article in ... Who is Pressuring Antitrust? A Response to Wright
Litigating Delaware governance law in an alien land
A recent Delaware case, Baker v. Impact Holding, Inc., raises several interesting questions on a topic I’ve discussed recently – where to litigate cases involving Delaware business entities. Francis Pileggi has a good summary of the case. I want to explore the case’s implications for jurisdictional competition. First some general background before getting into the ... Litigating Delaware governance law in an alien land
The Capitalist & The Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets
I purchased my copy of Peter Klein’s latest — The Capitalist & The Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets — today. It is available for purchase here and here. And if you wont to sneak a peak, you can see the full version here. The role of the entrepreneur is one of the more under-theorized ... The Capitalist & The Entrepreneur: Essays on Organizations and Markets
Giving away the first year of law school
Christine Hurt suggests: If Progressive Law School costs $30,000 a year today, then starting next year, the first year is free, and the second year is $45,000 and the third year is $45,000. Students are admitted the same way, only tuition is deferred until a student registers for the second year of law school. If ... Giving away the first year of law school
Comments on Jonathan Baker's Preserving a Political Bargain
I’ve recently finished reading Jonathan Baker’s Preserving a Political Bargain: The Political Economy of the Non-Interventionist Challenge to Monopolization Enforcement, forthcoming in the Antitrust Law Journal. Baker’s central thesis in Preserving a Political Bargain builds on earlier work concerning competition policy as an implicit political bargain that was reached during the 1940s between the more ... Comments on Jonathan Baker's Preserving a Political Bargain
Price Discrimination in Education
Tom Smith offers an entertaining and insightful perspective on the economics of higher education: Without passing moral judgment in any way, I will just observe it is astonishing that higher education in this country has managed to get established a system where consumers have to disclose in detail how much money they have before they ... Price Discrimination in Education
Financial reform and foreign stocks
The WSJ reported on Tuesday that moves by Daimler and other European, especially German, companies to shed their U.S. listings indicate that many of these firms “have come to view [a U.S. listing] as a liability.” The exodus will leave just four major German companies with U.S. listings. The WSJ notes that the costs have ... Financial reform and foreign stocks
Taxing private equity
The venerable debate over carried interest compensation of private equity managers is heating up again. The NYT’s Andrew Sorkin is predicting Congress will vote to tax it as ordinary income rather than capital gains, which Sorkin thinks is a good thing: Under their current partnership structure, however, [private equity] general partners * * * receive ... Taxing private equity
From Ideoblog to TOTM
After six years on Ideoblog I have decided to move my act over to Truth on the Market. I’m taking this momentous (for me, if not the rest of the world) step for three reasons. First, I’m joining a great bunch of writers, some of whom I’ve known for a long time. TOTM offers what ... From Ideoblog to TOTM
Stan Liebowitz Applies the Laugh Test to the O/S File-Sharing Paper
Stan Liebowitz (UT-Dallas) has posted his latest on the file sharing debate, “The Oberholzer-Gee/Strumpf File-Sharing Instrument Fails the Laugh Test.” (HT: Craig Newmark). Having covered the file-sharing debate on this blog, including Professor Strumpf’s remarkably unprofessional and uncharitable treatment of Professor Liebowitz, I greatly admire Stan’s ability to stay above the fray and stick to ... Stan Liebowitz Applies the Laugh Test to the O/S File-Sharing Paper
Are State Consumer Protection Acts Really Little FTC Acts?
I’ve posted to SSRN my latest on state consumer protection litigation, Are State Consumer Protection Acts Really Little FTC Acts?, co-authored with Henry Butler (Searle Center, Northwestern University School of Law). It is forthcoming in the Florida Law Review. The project aims to empirically examine the similarities and differences between state and federal consumer protection ... Are State Consumer Protection Acts Really Little FTC Acts?
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There is quite a bit of IO on Youtube (HT: comments section from MR) Congrats to GMU’s Murat Mungan for taking home the Whitney Prize The lineup for the Alabama Ag/ Antitrust workshop has been announced The CD-MAP antitrust settlement funds are paying for concerts Investigation against Apple looms after complaint from Adobe — the ... Some Links
