The union of law and economics may have had its greatest impact in the anti-trust field.
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At one level, the Google matter raises a host of interesting questions involving antitrust law and economics.
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Mr. Hazlett is a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, where he directs the Information Economy Project.
This has its roots what was originally seen as a conservative, and downright cynical, theory known as law and economics.
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In the 1980s, that dynamic changed as the infusion of law and economics principles transformed the foundations of antitrust enforcement.
Bork was already divisive figure because of his theories on law and economics when he was named Solicitor General under Richard Nixon.
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He has studied and taught law in France and was dean of the law and economics faculty at the University of Dakar, Senegal.
The debate takes another twist with a new book by John Lott, a fellow in law and economics at the University of Chicago.
Edgardo Buscaglia, a professor of law and economics at Columbia University, specializes in organized crime, and has advised the United Nations and the World Bank.
Law and economics teaches that insider trading causes no important harm and, by transmitting the inside information to the market, brings an important benefit: more accurate share prices.
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Sirius and XM commissioned Hazlett - currently a law and economics professor at George Mason University -- to write a brief to the FCC on behalf of their merger.
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The EEOC is confident that its guidance will boost minority hiring, but studies published in the University of Chicago Legal Forum and the Journal of Law and Economics have found that businesses are much less likely to hire minority applicants when background checks are banned.
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Mr. Sunstein, a prolific academic with wide-ranging interests, may be best known for advancing a field known as "law and behavioral economics" that seeks to shape law and policy around the way research shows people actually behave.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last year, Mr. Sunstein said Mr. Obama was intrigued by "law and behavioral economics" as an approach to regulation that would avoid ideological extremes.
All over the world there is now much more economics taught in law schools, more lawyers and judges are familiar with economics, and more economists are concentrating on law-related work.
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It is a mentality that exists globally, but also a process that is impelled and constrained by economics and law, incentives and regulation.
Justice as employed by popular culture combines elements of law, morality and economics, but in very unjust manners.
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Those with degrees in subjects like law, maths and economics can expect earnings around 25% higher than average.
These pockets form around public subjects: politics, law, economics and knowledge professions.
Law-and-economics thinkers tend to assume that competitive forces in free markets will lead to efficient outcomes and that regulation often harms rather than helps consumers.
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The law-and-economics framework for analysing mergers, for example, does not obviate the need for trust-busters to make educated guesses about how competition might develop in future.
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Never mind the morality of what brought the parties to court, the law-and-economics crowd said: The courts are a mechanism for shoving the costs on the parties best suited to pay them.
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There is still substantial room for differences of opinion which may explain why, while Mr Bork is advising Netscape in the Internet firm's encouragement of antitrust action against Microsoft, many other law-and-economics theorists have lined up on Microsoft's side.
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In higher education, corrupt methods of gaining entrance and securing better grades are rife, especially in sought-after subjects such as languages, economics and law.
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It has spawned a number of industries (telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, film, recorded sound and music) and vast academic empires in economics and anti-trust law.
Tuckwell, with a background in both economics and law, not only took the reins for such a product but anted up capital.
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Obama is "going to be extremely constrained by an economy that's not growing, " says Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith, a professor of economics and law at George Mason University.
A. from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Boston University, Nina has practiced law for about twenty years but admits her first unsuccessful foray was with a partner who left her holding a significant amount of debt.
Degrees cover five subject areas - law, economics, history, English literature and philosophy.
Whether the justices rely on points of law, environmental science or economics, the facts and the statute will yield the same answer: Overturn the Ninth Circuit ruling.
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