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27 Feb 2009, 3:08 pm
Epstein Becker & Green's second live blog this week is titled Health Reform Musings. [read post]
4 Aug 2006, 5:04 am
UPDATE FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE:  They are discussing internet gambling, although not the WTO case, over at the Becker-Posner blog. [read post]
22 Feb 2024, 10:13 am by Peter S. Lubin and Patrick Austermuehle
Becker, the plaintiffs claimed that the defendants interfered with their prospective business relations with various entities, causing economic harm. [read post]
28 Oct 2012, 7:17 pm by Richard Posner
I think the answer is “yes,” and that this becomes apparent if we understand the Darwinian character of competition, though this is not to suggest that competition invariably, or even typically, leads to corrupt behavior. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 12:49 pm by Richard Posner
Much of the concern with government deficits in countries as unlike as the United States and Greece focuses on public employees, viewed as overpaid parasites who, being paid by the government, contribute directly to the public debt. [read post]
24 Apr 2011, 6:41 pm by Richard Posner
Last week the Department of Transportation announced a set of regulations that it calls “Enhancing Airline Passsenger Protections II,” the “II” referring to the fact that similar “protections” were imposed more than a year ago and are now being expanded. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 6:13 pm by Richard Posner
The great economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term “creative destruction” to describe the process by which innovation (which might be technological or organizational—the latter illustrated by the invention of the supermarket) promotes economic growth and welfare but at the cost of wiping out existing economic practices or institutions. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 5:27 pm by Richard Posner
A great many colleges give preference in admission to children of alumni. [read post]
3 Oct 2010, 6:55 pm by Richard Posner
There is widespread concern that elementary and secondary school education in the United States is deteriorating and is now inferior to that of many other countries, as measured for example by high-school graduation rates and college attendance rates. [read post]
10 Jun 2012, 3:00 pm by Richard Posner
It may be an overstatement to say that the world’s economy is in crisis, but if so it is only a slight overstatement. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 4:03 pm by Richard Posner
A company or other organization, or an individual, is insolvent when its liabilities (what it owes) exceed the market value of its assets. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 7:15 am by Richard Posner
Two weeks ago Warren Buffett made waves with a brief op-ed piece in the New York Times of August 15 entitled “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 2:17 pm by Richard Posner
Dictatorships, as we are seeing in the Middle East today, and as we saw in Iran in 1979 and in the communist nations in 1989—not to mention France in 1789—have a way of imploding unexpectedly, the unexpectedness lying in the fact that no external event seems to have precipitated the collapse. [read post]
26 Dec 2010, 11:47 am by Richard Posner
The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, which President Obama signed into law on December 17, is being described as an $858 billion stimulus bill. [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 5:37 pm by Richard Posner
The economic situations of the United States and Greece are more alike than one might think. [read post]
29 Apr 2012, 12:42 pm by Richard Posner
A promising field of economics called organization economics studies the organization of activity within complex entities such as for-profit corporations, government agencies, and not-for-profit private corporations. [read post]