Truth On The Market

"Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more."

Author: The following law professors contribute: Thom Lambert, associate professor of law at the University of Missouri; Geoffrey Manne, assistant professor at Lewis & Clark Law School; Robert Miller, assistant professor of law at Villanova University; Keith Sharfman, associate professor at Rutgers School of Law-Newark; William K. Sjostrom Jr., associate professor at Northern Kentucky University's Salmon P. Chase College of Law; and Joshua D. Wright, assistant professor at George Mason University School of Law.

Recent Posts from Truth on the Market

“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…
GMU/Microsoft Conference on the Law & Economics of Innovation
UPDATE 2: And now Susan DeSanti, newly-appointed Director of the Office of Policy and Planning at the FTC has signed on for our industry/regulator roundtable. A not-to-be-missed event! UPDATE: We’re delighted to announce that Bill Kovacic will be…
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…
Shelanski from Berkeley to Georgetown
Congratulations to Professor Shelanski (HT: Brian Leiter). Berkeley’s strength in antitrust is impressive. Note that even with the likely departures of Joe Farrell (FTC Bureau of Economics), Carl Shapiro (DOJ) and Shelanski (Georgetown, and maybe…
My interview with Bill Isaac
Over at finreg21–a new site devoted to news, analysis and commentary on financial regulatory reform with which I am affiliated–I interview Bill Isaac, former Chairman of the FDIC (during the savings and loan crisis). We…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…