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The Situation of Antitrust Law
Maurice E. Stucke recently posted his thoughtful paper, “Reconsidering Antitrust’s Goals” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Antitrust policy today is an anomaly. On the one hand, antitrust is...
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The Situation of the Inequality Getting Inequalitier
From PBSNewsHour: Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the “tippy-top” of the economic food chain as more people fall out of the middle class. The top 20...
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A Neuroscience Perspective on the Financial Crises
Andrew Lo recently posted his paper “Fear, Greed, and Financial Crises: A Cognitive Neurosciences Perspective” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Historical accounts of financial crises suggest that...
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The Risky Situation of In-House Lawyers
Donald Langevoort recently posted his worthwhile paper, “Getting (Too) Comfortable: In-House Lawyers, Enterprise Risk and the Financial Crisis” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. In-house lawyers are...
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The Situation of Choice
From the APS Monitor (excerpts from a terrific primer on “The Mechanics of Choice”): * * * The prediction of social behavior significantly involves the way people make decisions about resources and...
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How Much Choice Would You Choose?
From Harvard Gazette: Undergraduates packed Science Center E on Monday to hear two of Harvard’s leading social scientists discuss the way that humans make decisions, and whether having more choices...
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The Situation of Chicago School “Law and Economics”
From Business Week (an article, by Peter Coy, including several quotations from Situationist Editor, Jon Hanson): Q: How many Chicago School economists does it take to change a light bulb? A: None. If...
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The Historical Situation of Situationism at Harvard Law
Tito Rendas has just posted his terrific paper, “Mind Sciences in the Harvard Law School Curriculum: Tracing the History, Proposing the Proliferation” on SSRN. We hope to post excerpts from the paper...
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Dan Ariely on the Situation of Dishonesty
From theRSAorg: Dan Ariely visits the RSA to examine the mechanisms at work behind dishonest behaviour, and the implications this has for all aspects of our social and political lives. Listen to the...
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Social Media and Behavioral Economics Conference
On Wednesday, Feb. 6, scholars from across Harvard University will join social media experts from Facebook, Twitter, Socialflow and Microsoft Research, for a conference on social media, theory and...
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The Psychological Situation of Markets
From Caltec News (by Marcus Woo): When it comes to economics versus psychology, score one for psychology. Economists argue that markets usually reflect rational behavior—that is, the dominant players...
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Increasing Role of Pscyhology in Law
From the latest edition of Observer, an article by David Halpern: When governments want advice on the likely impact of their policies, they traditionally turn to economists. Psychologists have been...
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Trent Smith on Deep Capture and Obesity – The Video
In the fall of 2014, Trent Smith delivered a talk titled “The Economics of Information, Deep Capture, and the Obesity Debate.” Here’s the abstract and, below that, the video of his talk. Are...
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Trent Smith on Deep Capture and Obesity – The Video
In the fall of 2014, Trent Smith delivered a talk titled “The Economics of Information, Deep Capture, and the Obesity Debate.” Here’s the abstract and, below that, the video of his talk. Are...
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