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Happiness, Efficiency, And The Promise Of Decisional Equity: From Outcome To Process, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Happiness, Efficiency, And The Promise Of Decisional Equity: From Outcome To Process, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Jeffrey L Harrison
This article explains why outcome-oriented goals like efficiency, happiness, or well-being are ultimately of limited use as goals for law. Part II places happiness research in the context of past efforts to assess efficiency standards. Part III outlines the schism between efficiency and happiness and examines whether they can be reconciled. Part IV discusses the problems of relying on direct measures of happiness. The concept of decisional equity is described and examined in Part V.
The Messenger Model: Don't Ask, Don't Tell?, Jeffrey L. Harrison
The Messenger Model: Don't Ask, Don't Tell?, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Jeffrey L Harrison
This article makes the case that the messenger model is either tacitly or inadvertently a "don't ask, don't tell" policy when it comes to competitor cooperation. In addition, this article presents an economic framework that explains how such a policy may benefit health care consumers. Finally, it is suggested that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy has created an area of per se legality that precludes an examination designed to distinguish consumer-benefiting practices from those that provide no benefit.
Regulation, Deregulation, And Happiness, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Regulation, Deregulation, And Happiness, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Jeffrey L Harrison
Happiness, in general, is in many respects the topic du jour. A great deal of theoretical and empirical work has been devoted to dissecting it. Studies of happiness have crossed over to law, and the result is an addition to the long list of the list of “law and” interdisciplinary areas. In fact, in 2010, Eric Posner and Matthew Alder presented an excellent book of readings the title of which is Law and Happiness. Peter Henry Huang has written the definitive survey of law and happiness literature. My own writing has reflected on the promise of happiness research and the …
Book Review: Law And Happiness, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Book Review: Law And Happiness, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Jeffrey L Harrison
There has been a huge surge in writing about happiness and law. Part of the rationale for the interest in happiness is that it is a potential substitute for conventional notions of efficiency. Every conventional efficiency-oriented standard is based on expectations that one will be better off. For example, demand is based on willingness to pay but not on the outcome of the actual purchase. Happiness, on the other hand, is about how things turn out. Indeed, the importance of a topic is evident when two well-published and eminent law professors present a book of readings on the topic. Law …
Happiness, Efficiency And The Promise Of Decisional Equity: From Output To Process, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Happiness, Efficiency And The Promise Of Decisional Equity: From Output To Process, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Jeffrey L Harrison
Happiness, Efficiency, and the Promise of Decisional Equity: From Output to Process Those who resist the teachings of law and economics are rightfully concerned that economic efficiency is largely based on the predictions of relatively acquisitive people about what will make them feel or be better off. Due to a variety of factors, these predictions often turn out to be wrong The explosion in happiness research would appear to have the potential to close the link between choices and actual outcomes and, consequently, make the concept of efficiency more meaningful. This Article explores this promising advance. It concludes that direct …