Economists regularly appear as expert witnesses in antitrust litigations. The paper analyzes how their models and … Daubert decision. Some tentative explanations for the economists' troubles when facing a Daubert challenge in antitrust cases …

The orthodox view of economic policy holds that public deliberation sets the goals or ends, and then experts select the … means to implement these goals. This assumes that experts are no more than trustworthy servants of the public interest …. David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart examine the historical record to consider cases in which experts were trusted with …