Richard Epstein on property rights, and anticipatory wars too
15 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, law and economics, laws of war, Richard Epstein, war and peace Tags: Israel
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05 Apr 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Richard Epstein

Tweet… is from page 162 of Richard Epstein’s magnificent 1995 volume, Simple Rules for a Complex World: The entire regulatory process [of wrongful dismissal of workers] shows the constant preoccupation with the direct effects of decisions on named persons, without regard to the vastly greater indirect effects on other persons similarly situated. The effort to…
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Walking the Line: When & How Should Courts Override Legislatures – Richard A. Epstein
21 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
in law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags: constitutional law
Sloped armor: A simple feature that saved many lives
03 Sep 2022 Leave a comment
in defence economics, Richard Epstein, war and peace Tags: World War II
Richard Epstein on Antitrust
15 May 2022 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, law and economics, politics - USA, Richard Epstein Tags: competition law
Richard Epstein on The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti Discrimination Laws
13 May 2022 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, poverty and inequality, Richard Epstein Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination
The Development of Roman Law: From Republic to Empire, Statutes to Common Law Rules
01 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Richard Epstein Tags: Roman empire
Richard Epstein Inaugural Lecture as Laurence A. Tisch Professorship of Law
21 Sep 2021 Leave a comment
The Unfulfilled Promise of the Anti-Discrimination Laws
11 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of regulation, labour economics, law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags: offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit
Pushing Back against “Disinformation” | Glenn Loury & Richard Epstein | The Glenn Show
03 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags: constitutional law, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The Law of Contracts Richard Epstein
31 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economics of crime, law and economics, property rights, Richard Epstein
Richard Epstein: “Is the Administrative State Consistent with the Rule of Law?”
22 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of regulation, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, Richard Epstein Tags: constitution law, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Simple Rules for a Complex World By Richard Epstein
07 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights, Richard Epstein
Ronald Coase on JS Mill’s false doctrine of “natural monopoly”
02 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, law and economics, Public Choice, Richard Epstein, Ronald Coase, survivor principle
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