Law & Econ Prof Blog
Covers the intersection of law and economics.
Author: Jagdeep Bhandari, a law professor at Florida Coastal School of Law, and Thomas S. Ulen, director of the Illinois Program in Law and Economics at the University of Illinois College of Law, edit the Law & Econ Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professors Blog Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Florida Coastal School of Law • University of Illinois • Law Professor • Economics
Recent Posts from Law & Econ Prof Blog
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Amusing Take on the Financial Crisis
I have loved Andy Borowitz's short, amusing essays in The New Yorker in the "Shouts and Murmurs" section. His recent column. "Too Big to Fail," available here, is a wonderful take on the financial crisis.…
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Guinness Book of World Records
The 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records appeared recently. Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had this marvelous review of the book by Dan Ackman. You will be amused and enlightened. TSU
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Regional Personalities in the U.S.
This article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal reports on research that suggests that there are distinct personality types in the different regions of the United States. I do not know the underlying methods or data…
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A Manipulated Prediction Market?
I am a fan of prediction markets -- unless, of course, they are being manipulated so as not to reflect the true aggregated beliefs of traders. So, this column at fivethirtyeight.com (an excellent source of…
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More Financial News
David Leonhardt of The New York Times is back from his several-month sabbatical and has an excellent article, "Bubblenomics," in today's New York Times Magazine on the financial crisis. TSU
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Financial Crisis
The causes of the financial crisis and the particular correctives of the federal government's bailout plan are both a bit hazy to us nonspecialists. Today's Freakonomics column, guest written by Douglas Diamond and Anil Kashyap…
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CELS
Last Friday and Saturday, four of my colleagues at the University of Illinois College of Law (David Hyman, Jay Kesan, Bob Lawless, and Jen Robbennolt) and I attended the Third Annual Conference on Empirical Legal…
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TV -- Good or Bad?
There's an interesting article in this morning's Wall Street Journal summarizing recent empirical work by economists on the effects of children's TV-atching. See here. Ignore the breathless description of new statistical techniques and focus instead…
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Expert Witnesses
There's an excellent article by Adam Liptak in today's New York Times on how different legal systems qualify expert witnesses to testify. The U.S. in unique in delegating to the adversarial parties the choice of…
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Smatterings
Here are several things that I've been thinking about or reading lately: 1. Robert Ellickson, The Household: Informal Order Around the Hearth. The book will be available from Princeton University Press on August 21, 2008.…