Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- American economic growth (1)
- Barack Obama (1)
- Broadband (1)
- Compensation (1)
- Digital Communications (1)
-
- Economic Growth (1)
- Economic Patent Remedies (1)
- Employment (1)
- Executive compensation (1)
- Income tax administration (1)
- On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope (1)
- Patent Scope (1)
- Patent Scope Revisited Conference (1)
- Research Policy (1)
- Richard Nelson (1)
- Robert Merges (1)
- Technology (1)
- Uncertainty (1)
- United States tax history (1)
- Publication
- Publication Type
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Law
The Future Of Digital Communications Research And Policy, Scott Wallsten
The Future Of Digital Communications Research And Policy, Scott Wallsten
Federal Communications Law Journal
Symposium: Essays from Time Warner Cable's Research Program on Digital Communications.
Confident Uncertainty, Excessive Compensation & The Obama Plan, Michael B. Dorff
Confident Uncertainty, Excessive Compensation & The Obama Plan, Michael B. Dorff
Indiana Law Journal
Public outrage at the enormous bonuses TARP recipients paid to senior executives recently prompted the Obama administration to impose sweeping new curbs on executive compensation. Shortly thereafter, Senator Dodd added restrictions on executive bonuses to the stimulus bill President Obama subsequently signed. These are understandable political reactions, but will they achieve the twin goals of reducing executive compensation in recipients of federal assistance while spurring better corporate performance? To examine this question, I analyze excessive compensation as the product of "confident uncertainty, "the tendency of even the most sophisticated actors to place unwarranted confidence in their ability to predict the …
Complex Economics And Patent Remedies, John M. Golden
American Economic Development, Managerial Corporate Capitalism, And The Institutional Foundations Of The Modern Income Tax, Ajay K. Mehrotra
American Economic Development, Managerial Corporate Capitalism, And The Institutional Foundations Of The Modern Income Tax, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Histories of the modern American income tax have generally focused on the role that social and political forces have played in the development of a new tax system. This article seeks to move beyond the social and political determinants to examine the economic factors that facilitated the adoption of the modern, graduated income tax. Without marginalizing the importance of social and political factors, the central aim of this article is to make a modest contribution to the legal and political historiography of the U.S. income tax by highlighting how changing material economic conditions afforded social groups, political reformers, and lawmakers …