The discipline of Law and Economics seeks to scientifically analyze law. This Article uses the social norms aspect of the Law and Economics field to examine marijuana prohibition in order to show that policymakers should consider changing the law to better account for social norms. First, the...

There is overwhelming evidence that the opioid crisis which has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars (and counting) has been created or exacerbated by webs of influence woven by several pharmaceutical companies. These webs involve health professionals, patient advocacy...

The 'friendship paradox' (Feld1991) refers to the fact that, on average, people have strictly fewer friends than their friends have. I show that this over-sampling of the most popular people amplifies behaviors that involve complementarities. People with more friends experience greater...