In mainstream antitrust law the nature of economic efficiency has not been investigated in great depth. Such an investigation has important implications for antitrust law and economics. Among these are the following: (1) Behavioral economics shows that consumer surplus measures of losses...

The foster care system attempts to prepare children and youth who have suffered child maltreatment for successful adult lives. This study documents the economic advantages of a privately funded foster care program that provided longer term, more intensive, and more expensive services compared to...

This article reviews every litigated federal merger case since 1992, when the federal enforcement agencies revised the entry section of their merger guidelines. This review, unprecedented in the literature, shows that courts continue to neglect the entry phase of merger analysis, the phase that...

This article addresses the question of what economic efficiency is and why a proper understanding of it affects the economic efficiency claim that is made for common law. This understanding shows that a good deal of the criticism of the efficiency claim in fact are consistent with it. Justice...

It is said that benefit-cost analysis adds up impacts “to whomsoever they accrue”. But in practice that general guidance is more complex and it is the issue of “standing” that defines more precisely whose benefits and costs are to be counted. As in law, where to bring a suit one must...

Regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) weigh the benefits of regulations against the burdens they impose and are invaluable tools for informing decision makers. We offer 10 tips for nonspecialist policymakers and interested stakeholders who will be reading RIAs as consumers. 1. Core problem:...