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19 Jan 2012, 12:29 pm
I thought Todd Zywicki, a senior scholar with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, did a nice job on Judge Napolitano’s “Freedom Watch” show addressing the contentious question of whether government should be regulating food advertising in order to somehow make American kids healthier. [read post]
18 Oct 2011, 5:48 am
(Todd Zywicki) Coming up on November 10–11 will be a symposium hosted by the Washington & Lee Law Review on Regulation in the Fringe Economy. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 2:00 pm
(Todd Zywicki) I was delighted to be invited to contribute to an important new book that has just appeared: Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future. [read post]
30 Dec 2010, 11:47 am
(Todd Zywicki) The Washington Post’s education blog has an update on UVA’s decision that Ilya and I mentioned a little while back to get rid of its policies that infringe on free speech. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 3:19 pm
Jeremy Kidd and Todd Zywicki @ SSRN:Taking as given the claims of tort reform proponents, that increased tort liability in the past few decades has had deleterious effects on American productivity, consumer safety, etc., we consider whether proposed measures to increase access to the courts are likely to be beneficial, with a specific focus on third-party financing and lawyer advertising. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 1:00 pm
(Todd Zywicki) I acknowledge from the comments that many readers were less impressed than I was with Peter Wallison’s criticism of the concept of “systemic risk” that I posted a couple of weeks back (although I didn’t see anything then or since that has led me to question Peter’s conclusion that the problem was not interconnectedness but common shock, as Peter argues). [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 4:16 am
(Todd Zywicki) I’ll be participating in a program tomorrow on “A Growing Crisis in the Credit Market,” a one-day conference on “The Plight Facing the Unbanked and the Under-Banked in America. [read post]
21 Apr 2012, 6:26 am
(Todd Zywicki) I have a short essay up at the Liberty Law blog today “Upholding the Rule of Law In Season and Out of Season. [read post]
28 Oct 2011, 11:38 am
(Todd Zywicki) From yesterday’s WSJ:Nan Terrie learned an expensive lesson last week about the importance of property rights. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 6:32 am
(Todd Zywicki) Anne Neal has the scoop. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 10:37 am
(Todd Zywicki) Dartmouth’s election for trustee and Executive Committee of the Association of Alumni concludes on April 7. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 6:06 am
(Todd Zywicki) I argue in today’s Washington Times that the Durbin amendment to the financial regulatory reform bill that imposes price controls on debit and prepaid card interchange fees will be bad for consumers, has nothing to do with the purported purpose of the bill, and seems to be nothing more than a payoff to a politically influential interest group at the expense of consumers. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 7:24 pm
(Todd Zywicki) Max Stearns has an interesting take on the much-publicized failure to award a winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction this year, arguing that it was likely the result of a flawed set of voting rules that led to none of the finalists receiving a majority, rather than statement of unworthiness of all the candidates (apparently the judges would have been fine with any of the three winning, it is just that among the finalists no one of the three stood out above the… [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 4:27 am
(Todd Zywicki) The wits at CEI have come up with another good one–you can print your own $5 “Durbin Dollars” and mail it to Senator Durbin to thank him for his price controls on debit card interchange fees and resulting new bank fees. [read post]
18 Jan 2015, 9:33 am
” [DealBook/NYT] Todd Zywicki at Volokh finds much lacking in the article’s analysis: “it turns out that those who use these products are not as stupid as the Times’s reporters imply they are. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 10:10 am
(Todd Zywicki) Thanks to the kind invite of Jonathan Adler and the Case Western Reserve Law School Center for Business Law and Regulation, I’m honored to have been invited to give the Dean Lindsey Cowen Business Law Lecture at Case Western tomorrow from 4:30–5:30. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 7:00 am
(Todd Zywicki) Just got back this weekend from a fantastic week and a half at PERC hanging out with a bunch of my old Clemson professors. [read post]
6 May 2010, 5:23 pm
(Todd Zywicki) Some of the results in this new article by Zeljka Buturovic and Dan Klein in Econ Journal Watch (a peer-reviewed journal of economics) are startling: 67% of self-described Progressives believe that restrictions on housing development (i.e., regulations that reduce the supply of housing) do not make housing less affordable. 51% believe that mandatory licensing of professionals (i.e., reducing the supply of professionals) doesn’t increase the cost of… [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 12:41 pm
(Todd Zywicki) My new article (with Ed Stringham) has just been posted on SSRN. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 8:53 am
(Todd Zywicki) I’ve never liked the federal judicial clerkship cartel. [read post]
