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Ronald Coase, "China's Economic Transformation: Closing Remarks"

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These closing remarks to the "China's Economic Transformation" conference were given by Professor Coase on July 18, 2008.


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Ronald Coase, "China's Economic Transformation: Opening Remarks"

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These opening remarks to the "China's Economic Transformation" conference were given by Professor Coase on July 14, 2008.

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10:21 minutes (9.47 MB)

Eric Posner Argues that President Can Exceed Debt Ceiling without Congressional Approval

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Emergency Powers Let the President Borrow
Eric Posner
New York Times
October 2, 2013

“Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs.

Read more at: 

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/10/02/can-obama-ignore-the-debt-ceiling/emergency-powers-let-the-president-borrow-beyond-the-debt-limit

Faculty: 
Eric Posner

Epstein on the FDA and Stem-Cell Treatments

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Government Overreach Threatens Lives
Richard A. Epstein
Defining Ideas
October 1, 2013

Throughout its long history, the Federal Food and Drug Administration has insisted that its mission is “protecting and promoting your health.” Take that your seriously. In area after area, the record suggests that the paternalist FDA fails you in its announced purpose.

Read more at: 

http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/157656

Faculty: 
Richard A. Epstein

Eric Posner on Debt Ceiling and Government Shutdown

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On the Debt Ceiling, at Least, Congress Will Blink
Eric Posner
Slate.com
September 30, 2013

President Obama shouldn’t let the United States default on the debt, even if this means defying Congress and disregarding the debt limit. However, he shouldn’t, and can’t, stop the government shutdown.

Read more at: 

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/09/obama_can_t_stop_a_government_shutdown_but_he_can_raise_the_debt_ceiling.html

Faculty: 
Eric Posner

L&E Workshop: Krishnamurthy

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10.29.2013
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Faculty Workshop
Contact info (email or phone): 

Marjorie Holme, mholme@uchicago.edu

Bonus Law and Economics lunchtime workshop. Prasad Krishnamurthy, UC Berkely Law School, will present "Affirmative Action and Stigma in Higher Eduction Admissions."

Faculty: 
William H. J. Hubbard

Epstein, "Dodd-Frank Strikes Again"

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Dodd-Frank Strikes Again
Richard A. Epstein
Defining Ideas
September 24, 2013

This past week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it is preparing a full new set of regulations on CEO compensation that are in keeping with the Dodd-Frank law.

Read more at: 

http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/157266

Faculty: 
Richard A. Epstein

Law and Economics Summer School 2013

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Article: 
Second Annual Law and Economics Summer School Imparts New Methods to Chinese Scholars
Article title: 
New Tools in Law and Economics
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This summer, dozens of international scholars came to Chicago to learn new methods of studying law and economics.
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September 19, 2013

In July 2013, 83 scholars from China and other Asian countries traveled to Chicago to study law and economics at the Law School. It was the second annual Summer School in Law and Economics presented by the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics. Photographs by Lloyd DeGrane.

Second Annual Law and Economics Summer School Imparts New Methods to Chinese Scholars

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Meredith Heagney
Law School Office of Communications
September 19, 2013

For the second consecutive summer, Chien Chung Lin traveled from Taiwan to Chicago to participate in the annual Summer School in Law and Economics at the Law School. Lin, an assistant professor at National Chiao Tung University’s law school, wanted to repeat the experience after being part of the inaugural program in 2012.

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Omri Ben-Shahar
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Richard A. Posner
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Thomas J. Miles
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Randal C. Picker
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Saul Levmore
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Lior Strahilevitz
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Martha Nussbaum
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Tom Ginsburg
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William M. Landes
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Douglas G. Baird
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Richard I. Badger
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Julie Roin
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Richard Sandor

Robert H. Frank in the NYTimes on Coase and Government's Role in Economy

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Ronald Coase, a Pragmatic Voice for Government’s Role
Robert H. Frank
New York Times
September 14, 2013

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science is not awarded posthumously. So I was relieved when my longtime intellectual hero, Ronald H. Coase, won it in 1991, just a few months before his 81st birthday.

Read more at: 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/business/ronald-coase-a-pragmatic-voice-for-governments-role.html

Faculty: 
Ronald H. Coase
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