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An Economic Approach To The Determination Of Injury Under United States Antidumping And Countervailing Duty Law, Michael S. Knoll

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Problem Of Transaction Costs, Pierre Schlag

Pierre Schlag

No abstract provided.

The New Economic Theory Of The Firm: Critical Perspectives From History, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Financing Difficulties Stall Linkage In Providence, Chester Smolski

Smolski Texts

"When the India Point Club luxury condominium development, scheduled to be built on the Providence waterfront, was announced in 1987, there were many local skeptics who said it was too expensive for the Providence market. After all, selling penthouse condos overlooking the dirty Providence River for over $1 million was quite ambitious--and some said impossible."

Diverting The Coasean River: Incentive Schemes To Reduce Unemployment Spells, John Donohue

John Donohue

No abstract provided.

The Wage Carrot And The Pension Stick: Retirement Benefits And Labor Force Participation, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, David A. Wise

Upjohn Press

Kotlikoff and Wise document the continued backloading of pension benefits and the extent of retirement incentives by examining pension accrual in over 1,500 companies with defined benefit plans. They also perform a detailed analysis on the retirement plan of a "Fortune 500" company.

Organized Labor At The Crossroads, Wei-Chiao Huang Editor

Upjohn Press

This group of essays offers a detailed look at the problems, choices and future of industrial relations.

Strikers And Subsidies: The Influence Of Government Transfer Programs On Strike Activity, Robert M. Hutchens, David B. Lipsky, Robert N. Stern

Upjohn Press

The authors assess laws governing striker eligibility for government transfers, finding evidence linking UI payments to strike activity.

The Antitrust Movement And The Rise Of Industrial Organization, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

The modern science of industrial organization grew out of a debate among lawyers and economists in the waning years of the nineteenth century. For Americans, the emergent business "trust" provoked a dialogue about how the law should respond. Many of the formal theories of industrial organization, such as the ruinous competition doctrine, the potential competition doctrine, and the post-classical concern about vertical integration, were actually borrowed from the law.

Anglo-American and European economists disputed the proper domain of theory and description in economic analysis. The British approach was exemplified Alfred and Mary Paley Marshall's Economics of Industry, published in …

Antitrust And The Market For Corporate Control, Edward B. Rock

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Post-Chicago Law And Economics, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This is not another "law-and-econ" bashing symposium. Nor is the symposium's title intended to denigrate Chicago School law and economics any more than the term "Post-Keynesian economics" was intended to denigrate the work of John Maynard Keynes. Instead, this symposium marks the fact that many practitioners of law and economics have moved well beyond the stereotypes familiar to most legal academics. Rather than designating an entirely new school of thought, the term "Post-Chicago law and economics" refers to a new era in which a variety of new questions about law and lawmaking is being asked and a variety of promising …

The "Nexus Of Contracts" Corporation: A Critical Appraisal, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Corporate Debt Relationships: Legal Theory In A Time Of Restructuring, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Manufacturing Matters: The Myth Of The Postindustrial Economy, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

Messrs. Cohen and Zysman are political scientists. They are the resident gurus at BRIE (Berkeley Roundtable on International Economy). While they doubtless enjoy imported French cheese, especially with the Zinfandel from the local vineyards, they get the goose pimples watching movies on their Japanese VCRs. They are worried sick by America's alleged deindustrialization. This book is their effort to say why and to startle a complacement nation into an active policy to defend its industries.

Islands Of Conscious Power: Louis D. Brandeis And The Modern Corporation, Richard Adelstein

Richard Adelstein

An intellectual portrait of Louis Brandeis and the contradictions in his philosophy and public life.