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• Krugman's scapegoats: rebutting the times columnist's attempt to pin the market meltdown on the Chicago School 

  HARD times demand scapegoats. And demand in the scapegoat market is high right now, with economic malaise lingering after last year's financial...

  National Review, 10/05/09 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• CEOs' legal lament: it's hard to play a game when the rules keep changing 

  On more than one occasion lately, I have had conversations with CEOs who vented their frustration about trying to run a business in the current...

  Chief Executive, The, 09/01/09 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• The many faces of fault in contract law: or how to do economics right, without really trying. 

  Modern law often rests on the assumption that a uniform cost-benefit formula is the proper way to determine fault in ordinary contract disputes....

  Michigan Law Review, 06/01/09 by Epstein, Richard A. · More from publication

• Why constitutions matter: examining the legal root of the financial crisis 

  THE current financial meltdown has exposed the myth that our nation's sophisticated, multilayered scheme of government regulation immunizes us from...

  National Review, 05/04/09 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• The Sanctity of Contracts in a World of Bailouts: every firm—and every CEO—that has received bailout money has to ask itself whether its employment contracts are immune from government revision 

  Major public dustups have an unsettling way of forcing CEOs, who are often in the line of fire, to ponder fundamental questions about the structure...

  Chief Executive, The, 05/01/09 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• The ominous Employee Free Choice Act: this legislation represents a dramatic departure from previous labor law 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The history of American labor law, to date, can be broken into two broad periods, animated by...

  Regulation, 03/22/09 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• The AT&T consent decree: in praise of interconnection only 

  This article examines the consequences of the Bell consent decree of 1982. In the short run, the decree sought to end the AT&T's Corporate...

  Federal Communications Law Journal, 12/01/08 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• Weathering the subprime crisis; Should government intervene? 

  Is it bailout time? One of the hardest choices is to decide when, if ever, to intervene in private markets. The fast-moving deterioration of credit...

  Chief Executive, The, 06/01/08 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• Understanding immigration and trade: what will a shortage of skilled labor do to U.S. competitiveness? 

  Three years ago I spoke at a meeting of a trade association known as the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Walking down the aisles, I was struck...

  Chief Executive, The, 04/01/08 by Richard A. Epstein · More from publication

• DANGERS OF "INVESTOR PROTECTION" IN SECURITIES MARKETS, THE 

  I. INTRODUCTION: TROUBLESOME TIMES The purpose of this short Article is to step back a bit from the current controversies to ask this question:...

  Texas Review of Law & Politics, 04/01/08 by Epstein, Richard A · More from publication