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The Census As a Call to Action
(Fordham University School of Law, 2002)
This article argues that we misinterpret the Census figures showing the continued growth of the suburbs and increase in populations of some cities and not others. While many, including a Harvard economist, contend that ...
Intellectual Property and the Organization of Information Production
(Elsevier Science, 2002)
This paper analyzes an area that economic analysis of intellectual property has generally ignored, namely, the effects of intellectual property rights on the relative desirability of various strategies for organizing ...
Refugee Law, Gender and Human Rights Paradigm
(Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, 2002)
Some Economics of Wireless Communications
(Harvard University, Harvard Law School, 2002)
Spectrum policy appears to be coming to a turning point. After half a century of criticism from economists, the FCC and Congress seem poised to undertake substantial reform of a system that almost all commentators criticize ...
Managerial Power and Rent Extraction in the Design of Executive Compensation
(University of Chicago Press, 2002)
This paper develops an account of the role and significance of managerial power and rent extraction in executive compensation. Under the optimal contracting approach to executive compensation, which has dominated academic ...
Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm
(Yale Law School, 2002)
For decades our common understanding of the organization of economic production has been that individuals order their productive activities in one of two ways: either as employees in firms, following the directions of ...
After 9/11: Cities
(Section of Local Government Law, American Bar Association, 2002)
The Powerful Antitakeover Force of Staggered Boards: Further Findings and a Reply to Symposium Participants
(Stanford Law School, 2002)
This paper develops and defends our earlier analysis of the powerful antitakeover force of staggered boards. We reply to five responses to our work, by Stephen Bainbridge, Mark Gordon, Patrick McGurn, Leo Strine, and Lynn ...
Avoiding Absurdity? A New Canon in Regulatory Law
(The Law School of the University of Chicago, 2002)
Courts have recently developed a new principle of interpretation: Administrative agencies are not bound by the literal language of regulatory statutes, if they are attempting to ensure against absurd or patently unreasonable ...
Inequality and Indignation
(2002)
Inequalities often persist because both the advantaged and the disadvantaged stand to lose from change. Despite the probability of loss, moral indignation can lead the disadvantaged to seek to alter the status quo, by ...