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Interactive Coordination In Joint Attention, Shaun Gallagher
Interactive Coordination In Joint Attention, Shaun Gallagher
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Joint attention is located at the intersection of a complex set of capacities that serve our cognitive, emotional, and action-oriented relations with others. In one regard, it involves social cognition, our ability to understand others, what they intend, and what their actions mean. Here there is a two-way relationship between joint attention and social cognition. On the one hand, certain social cognitive abilities allow us to enter into jointattentional situations with others; on the other hand, our engagements in joint-attentional situations with others allow us to better understand their intentions and their actions.
Beyond Individualism In Law And Economics, Robert B. Ahdieh
Beyond Individualism In Law And Economics, Robert B. Ahdieh
Faculty Scholarship
The study of law and economics was built upon two pillars. The first is the familiar assumption of individual rationality. The second, less familiar, is the principle of methodological individualism. Over the last twenty years, law and economics has largely internalized behavioral critiques of the rationality assumption. By contrast, the field has failed to appreciate the implications of growing challenges to its methodological individualism. Where social norms shape individual choices, network externalities are strong, coordination is the operative goal, or information is a substantial determinant of value, a methodology strongly oriented to the analysis of individuals overlooks at least as …
The Ftc, Ip, And Ssos: Government Hold-Up Replacing Private Coordination, F. Scott Kieff, Richard A. Epstein, Daniel F. Spulber
The Ftc, Ip, And Ssos: Government Hold-Up Replacing Private Coordination, F. Scott Kieff, Richard A. Epstein, Daniel F. Spulber
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In its recent report entitled “The Evolving IP Marketplace,” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advances a far-reaching regulatory approach (Proposal) whose likely effect would be to distort the operation of the intellectual property (IP) marketplace in ways that will hamper the innovation and commercialization of new technologies. The gist of the FTC Proposal is to rely on highly non-standard and misguided definitions of economic terms of art such as “ex ante” and “hold-up,” while urging new inefficient rules for calculating damages for patent infringement. Stripped of the technicalities, the FTC Proposal would so reduce the costs of infringement by downstream …