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

New NIE Book Available
New Institutional Economics: A Guidebook (Brousseau and Glachant eds., CUP 2008) is available. HT: Peter Klein. This looks like a wonderful collection of papers and a must-have resource for those interested in NIE, law and…
The Demise of Property Rights Has Been Greatly Exaggerated …
My colleague Tom Hazlett (George Mason University) has a characteristically thoughtful and provocative column in the Financial Times on the recent Clearwire joint venture and what it tells us about the “innovation commons” and current…
What is the Worst Antitrust Decision That is Good Law?
There’s been a bit of discussion about the “most destructive” decision that is good law around the blogs, e.g. here and here, in response to John McCain’s criticism of Boumedine calling it “one of the…
Public Comments in FTC v. N-Data Decision
Available here.
Autism Misinformation Continues
First from McCain, who first claimed that there was “strong evidence of a link between vaccines and autism” and now has since revised his position acknowledging that there is no scientific evidence supporting such a…
A $66.5 Million Math Error?
Wow…: GSA officials were asked recently to reassess the total cost of donated items in what the agency called a routine audit. “In doing so, it was determined that some of the unit costs were…
Recommended Antitrust Reading for the Next Administration
The August issue of the Antitrust Source will feature several short contributions from lawyers, judges, professors, and economists in the antitrust community suggesting some recommended reading (a book, scholarly article, or judicial opinion) for the…
Bainbridge on Diversity at UCI Law School
Professor Bainbridge sees an interesting tension in the successful initial hiring at the UCI Law faculty: Liberals like Chemerinsky say that affirmative action is necessary so that a school can “look like” the community it…
The Filesharing Debate Gets Ugly
David Glenn brings us the latest in the filesharing dispute. HT: Peter Klein, who says sensible things about the newest, and ugliest piece of the controversy: Strumpf suggests that Liebowitz is pressing the issue so…
More From Henry Manne on The Future of Law and Economics
The following email from Henry Manne takes up our previous discussion of the future of law and economics (available here in downloadable form) and is published with permission. I’ve inserted a few links where Manne…