tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13213591072832805462024-02-08T07:36:41.544-08:00nDrafts...in the service of committing to modest academic progress.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-90765838965423119872022-08-05T10:50:00.003-07:002022-08-05T12:43:00.749-07:00Five-Year Plan Update?<p> How time flies. Hmmm.</p><p>In my (most recent) <a href="https://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2017/06/it-was-summer-of-17.html" target="_blank">prior post</a>, of, uh, five years or so ago, I referred to five papers I was in some stage of working on/thinking about. I will update the situation with those papers, and mention the next, short turnaround project.</p><p>I'll take the five papers in the reverse order in which they appeared in the prior post:</p><p>(5) "Compensated Live Kidney Donations," co-authored with my friend Randy Beard. <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619934" target="_blank">Here</a> it sits, as it did before, on ssrn. Nothing of note has been accomplished since that posting, alas. I have a vague notion to turn it into a more fun, shorter paper, titled along the lines of "What Would the Touch of Filthy Lucre Mean for Kidney Donations"? But I can't even bring myself to express that vague notion as a loose commitment. </p><p>(4) The cocaine regulation paper has transmogrified into an article in the <i>Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy</i> (Vol. 5, Issue 1, 7-12, 2021), pdf available <a href="https://sabeconomics.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JBEP_5_1_1.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>. Happy about this one.</p><p>(3) The Parthenon Marbles paper has been retitled! (OK, it has been significantly updated and revised, too.) The new title is "Athens or London?: The Parthenon Marbles and Economic Efficiency," and it will soon be available to the world in the online journal <i>Social Sciences & Humanities Open. </i>I imagine that the published version can be tracked (when available) at the updated ssrn link, <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4066443" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>(2) I was hoping to post my casino regulation paper on ssrn by July 8, 2017 -- I was a few weeks late, but <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3011606" target="_blank">here it is</a>. But revising this paper is my current research activity -- this one is getting a new title, too. Fortunately, casino regulation is an evergreen topic! I want to submit the revised version within a few days -- though exactly where, I am not sure.</p><p>(1) I did post "Vice Policy in Russia: Alcohol, Tobacco, Gambling," on ssrn as intended, though about ten days late. But a revised version, available <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2019.1666099" target="_blank">here</a>, has been published in <i>Policy Sciences. </i>The published version has been available for a couple years, but the official issue publication date (I just now learned) is 2022. I also should update the nDrafts reader on my plan to improve my Russian language skills. I have done that, mainly via Duolingo (which, alas, is rather limited in its Russian content relative to languages like French or Spanish). But my frequent travel to Ukraine and Russia has come to a halt, and world events are such that I expect that halt to be maintained for some time -- so the shine is off my desire to improve my Russian. French beckons, however.</p><p>Why have I updated nDrafts after a lapse of five years? Because I have a very tight deadline to write a paper on drug prohibition, so I am reviving my <a href="https://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Five Drafts</a> (and relatedly, nDrafts) method.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-5016739510599347472017-06-24T09:20:00.000-07:002017-07-10T10:36:06.910-07:00It was the Summer of '17<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Time to check in, what with, oh, a year passing since <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2016/08/parthenon-marbles-etc-update.html">the previous post</a>. Should I chronicle the slew of missed deadlines, or focus on the odd past success or the ambitious agenda for the weeks ahead? Perhaps a smattering of all...<br />
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Loose ends to tie up:<br />
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(1) complete "Vice Policy in Russia: Alcohol, Tobacco, Gambling," which I presented in November, 2016, but do not yet have a complete draft ready to post on ssrn.com; my new due date on this one: July 1, 2017 [as a side note, let me mention that I intend to upgrade my very poor Russian this summer];<br />
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(2) revise and post on ssrn.com "Selling Hope, Casino-Style." I have a complete draft, and presented it twice (in March and April, 2017); time to put on the finishing touches. Due date: July 8, 2017;<br />
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(3) revise <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2803930">the Parthenon Marbles paper</a> -- I have never been happy with the last few pages. Due date: July 15, 2017;<br />
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(4) possibly revise, and maybe seek to publish, the <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2737619">cocaine regulation </a>paper. Due date: July 22, 2017.<br />
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(5) take a look at my paper with Randy Beard, "<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619934">Compensated Live Kidney Donations</a>," and think about revising it or submitting it somewhere. I sort of like this paper, but like most of my papers, can't think of any obvious outlet for it. Due date: July 29, 2017.<br />
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So much for loose ends? As for my ambitious agenda on the reading front, this summer I hope to read up on animal welfare and policy. First in the queue is <i><a href="http://a.co/aOkp6Du">Can Animals Be Moral?</a></i>, by Mark Rowlands. (One year ago, incidentally, I committed on this blog to reading <i><a href="http://a.co/2yoReX2">Narconomics</a></i>, by Tom Wainwright, and this is a case of the odd success.) And as for the research/writing agenda, well, I'll try to make some headway on <a href="http://beoutlines.blogspot.com/">my behavioral economics</a> stuff...<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-20326203734772342352016-08-07T19:22:00.004-07:002016-08-07T19:22:57.993-07:00Parthenon Marbles, etc., Update<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The delayed revision of the Parthenon Marbles paper was "completed" some time ago, though perhaps there will be more revisions in the future? At any rate, the current version is available <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2803930">here</a>. And I did meet my reading goal of <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008NQNEBA">Jonathan Haidt's <i>The Righteous Mind</i></a>, which is one of the best social science books I have read in quite awhile; only sorry I didn't read it a few years ago. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-20/the-republican-convention-translated-for-liberals">Here's a short article by Cass Sunstein </a>applying Haidt's ideas to the Republican National Convention of July, 2016.<br />
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For the future, well, I must buckle down for a (new) paper on Russian vice policy (alcohol, tobacco, gambling), but events related to that endeavor will be chronicled on <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">the sister blog</a>. I would like to make a reading commitment here, though: how about <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/dp/1610395832"><i>Narconomics</i>, by Tom Wainwright</a>? I'll also think about further revisions to the <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2803930">Parthenon Marbles paper</a>, and possibly look into submitting it to some perfectly innocent, unsuspecting journal.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-209024897518538142016-04-09T12:47:00.002-07:002016-04-09T12:47:51.703-07:00Mann Act Book Review and One Missed Deadline......or at least one that I am willing to acknowledge. But I will start with something completed, as foreshadowed in my <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2016/02/loose-ends-revisited-and-next-steps.html">previous nDrafts post</a>: a book review of <i>Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI </i>by Jessica R. Pliley, available <a href="http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/policing-sexuality.html">here</a>. Further, the <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2737619">short paper on regulating cocaine</a> has been completed, as has been the referee report on a paper concerning addiction. Oh, and yes, my reading commitment has been fulfilled, with <i style="color: #222222; font-family: georgia, utopia, 'palatino linotype', palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;"><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/dp/0307476596" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">The Parthenon Enigma</a></i><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">, by Joan Breton Connelly, added to the "<a href="https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.shtml">books promiscuously read</a>" pile. OK, so I did manage to take care of a few loose ends in the last couple months.</span><br />
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As for the missed deadline, that refers to the revised version of a paper about the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum. The new (missed?) deadline is April 18. I'd also like to begin to at least muse over the paper for this fall on vice policy in Russia, and hmmm, what to read, what to read? How about <i><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B008NQNEBA">The Righteous Mind</a></i>, by Jonathan Haidt?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-79026027513039139472016-02-06T12:02:00.000-08:002016-02-06T12:09:24.904-08:00Loose Ends Revisited, and Next StepsSome 8 months ago I <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2015/06/loose-ends.html">noted the status of a few "loose ends;"</a> I thought I would take this opportunity to update those, and to indicate some plans for the next, uh, 8 months or so.<br />
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The loose ends, and the updates:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">(1) reading a book on prostitution policy and writing a review of it; this is complete and the review should appear forthwith;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">(2) revising markedly <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2619934">a second kidney compensation paper</a>; this is complete.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">(3) writing a paper on the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum; this is complete, and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">(4) preparing a paper on vice policy for a conference in Russia; <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2605681">this is complete</a>. A Russian language version of the paper should soon be available(!).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">The next few weeks involve <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/2016/02/parthenon-marbles-update.html">revising the Parthenon Marbles paper</a>; I hope to post updates on <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">Five Drafts</a>. In this same time period I have to write a referee report for a paper concerning addiction -- I only mention it here as a personal reminder and spur to action. I also intend, over the next few months, to write another Russia-related vice paper, this time covering alcohol, tobacco, and gambling. There will probably also be a second paper (topic yet unknown) to employ some of my time in these next 8 months, and there are rumblings of the next book. When the book project materializes, I will post more here; the other projects are likely to be discussed or lamented on <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">Five Drafts</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">Oh my goodness, I almost forgot -- in the next few weeks, I hope to produce a short paper on regulating cocaine. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "utopia" , "palatino linotype" , "palatino" , serif; font-size: 15.4px; line-height: 21.56px;">I am always game for trying to commit to reading a book or two, too; right now, let me make that commitment to <i><a href="http://smile.amazon.com/dp/0307476596">The Parthenon Enigma</a></i>, by Joan Breton Connelly -- I already am well into it, so I am feeling confident. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-67412300079029888922015-06-09T10:18:00.000-07:002015-08-31T13:40:35.631-07:00The Law and Econ Project, Culmination [Updated, July 16, 2015]<i>Concepts in Law and Economics: A Guide for the Curious</i> will be out soon, oh but it will, through the good offices of Oxford University Press. Please celebrate by <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/concepts-in-law-and-economics-9780190213978?cc=us&lang=en&">buying (OK, pre-ordering) multiple copies</a>. If you are impatient -- and why shouldn't you be? -- the e-book <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Concepts-Law-Economics-Guide-Curious-ebook/dp/B011IXHR5I/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1&qid=1437062235">already is available</a>.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-22523507454161433032015-06-09T10:17:00.001-07:002015-06-09T10:17:21.444-07:00Loose EndsIn the <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2015/01/law-and-econ-project-update-xiv.html">most recent post</a> I mentioned a few other tasks beyond the ongoing Law and Economics book project. They involved...<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(1) reading a book on prostitution policy and writing a review of it;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(2) revising markedly a second kidney compensation paper (paper one is now out, available </span><a href="http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol77/iss3/10/" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #888888; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px; text-decoration: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">); </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(3) writing a paper on the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum; and, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(4) preparing a paper on vice policy for a conference in Russia.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Here is where progress stands...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(1) the book has been read, extensive notes taken, and a draft review has been fashioned but not polished; this project is now behind schedule, and I want to complete it soon;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(2) the revisions are complete and the kidney paper, for the time being, is in the able hands of my co-author;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(3) the Parthenon Marbles paper is essentially unstarted, but is now a top priority, with <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/2015/06/next-up-parthenon-marbles-in-british.html">a schedule</a>, and everything; and,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">(4) the vice policy paper -- "</span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;">Robust Alcohol Policy in Russia: Some Aspirational Measures" -- is complete, and can be downloaded at zero nominal charge <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2605681">here</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-13621300272623484202015-01-11T20:33:00.001-08:002015-01-12T08:13:34.267-08:00Law and Econ Project, Update XIVThe "final" version of the L and E book went in to the publisher on October 5, a few days beyond the October 1 deadline. I then proceeded to drag my feet on various ancillary matters, but sent a further slightly revised version (responding to some editorial suggestions) on December 1. More foot dragging on my end with respect to design decisions (footnotes or endnotes? font and layout? cover art? acknowledgements?), but those have been handled and I believe the ball is in the publisher's court for the time being. I agreed to prepare the index myself, so when the proofs are ready I will have to take that on. My experience in this department is that the process of preparing an index is deadly dull -- but, for what it is worth, the index itself is probably better than using an outside contractor, and second, preparing it forces you to go over the text carefully one more time, a couple months after you last have looked at it, and that sometimes leads to improvements. <br />
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In the next few months I have to read a book on prostitution policy and write a review of it; revise markedly a second kidney compensation paper (paper one is now out, available <a href="http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol77/iss3/10/">here</a>); write a paper on the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum; and, prepare a paper on vice policy for a conference in Russia. I will probably attempt to progress on some of the activities while using the <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">companion blog </a>to this one... UPDATE: OK, I have decided to use Five Drafts only for the Russian vice policy paper and for the revisions to kidney paper 2. That leaves nDrafts as the place to report on the book review and the Parthenon Marbles. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-613139261034240962014-09-08T10:15:00.001-07:002014-09-08T10:15:52.402-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update XIIIWell, in at least one dimension, the <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2014/07/law-and-econ-project-update-xii.html">recent plan</a> has been fulfilled: I made it all the way through the <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Harrisons-Law-Economics-Nutshell-Series-ebook/dp/B00AUE0KMO/ref=pd_sim_kstore_19?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DCW7G79KTBZB0T85246">nutshell series book on Law and Economics.</a> Enjoyed it, too. The seemingly more pressing matter of completing my own book also has been accomplished, more or less, though not according to the detailed plan. Nonetheless, everything (except the Acknowledgements) is about ready to go. There will be some frantic last minute revising over the next week or two -- so I won't adopt any deadlines for reading -- but the final version should look pretty much like the current one. Not sure whether that is good or bad news.<br />
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I'll append the Table of Contents. When I compare it with <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2012/02/law-and-econ-project-table-of-contents.html">the version from 2.5 years ago</a>, well, yes, changes (I hope improvements) have been made, but the similarities seem to dominate the differences. (Chapters 3, 4, and 5, largely are intact -- I wonder how much those intact sections themselves have been revised?) Hmmm. For my own edification, I'll put asterisks next to new or perhaps massively altered sections.<br />
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Concepts
in Law and Economics: A Guide for the Curious</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;">
Jim
Leitzel</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Table of Contents</div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Introduction</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Original of Laura</i></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Choice in
the Shadow of the Law</div>
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</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chapter 1: E pluribus unum</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Robin</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Efficiency</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Jeremy
Bentham</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Art of
the Deal</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Willingness-to-pay</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Why
Maximize Aggregate Wellbeing?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>*Just
Compensation</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Common Law
and Civil Law</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Coase
Theorem</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Establishing
a Market to Erode Rent Controls</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Coase
Corollary</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>More on
Property Rights and Efficiency: The Tragedy of the Commons</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Reverse
of the Medal: Property Rights and the Anticommons</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>*An
Aside on View Blocking</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*What
Happens When a Property Right is Infringed?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chapter 2: Efficiency pluribus unum</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
*The Sixty Minute Law School</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
*Property, Mostly a Reprise</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> *</span>Who
Owns Meteorites?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Contracts</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expectation
Damages and Efficient Breach</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., on Bad Men and the Law </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Accidents</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Strict
Liability</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Negligence</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Crime </div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> *</span>Purposes of
Punishing Crime</div>
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Efficiency When?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*Retribution?</div>
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Standards of Proof</div>
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Chapter 3: What’s done is done?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bart and
Lance</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Chicago Dibs</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Patents</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Advance Market Commitments</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Preventive
and Punitory Measures</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Firearm
Regulation</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>John
Stuart Mill</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Low
Probability, High Punishment Regimes</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Destruction
of Property: What’s Done Cannot Be Undone?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Moral
Rights: What’s Done Cannot Be Redone?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>*Defacing
or Improving?</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Intellectual
Property: What’s Done Can Be Done Repeatedly</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Public
Goods</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nabokov and
Existence Value</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chapter 4: Squeezing a balloon</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Peltzman Effect</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>*Endangered
Species</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Art Again:
Resale Rights, or Droit de Suite </div>
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Using the Law to
Serve Distributional Goals</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Squeezing
Copyright</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Creative
Commons and Open Access</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De Facto</i> Liberalization of the Copyright
Regime</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A World
Without Copyright </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
Radiohead and Nine
Inch Nails</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Copyright
Vacuums</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Fashion
Design</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Comedy</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Squeezing
Newspapers</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Hyperlocal
News</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Deflating
Subsidies</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chapter 5: Deorum injuriae Diis curae</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Low-cost Avoider
or Insurer</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Products
Liability</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Comparative
Negligence</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Foreseeable
Misuse and Attractive Nuisance</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Mill and
the Harm Principle</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Pecuniary
Externalities</div>
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Exchanges</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Kidney Markets</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The
Iranian Kidney Transplant Program</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Parthenon
Marbles and Cultural Property</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Statutes
of Limitation and Adverse Possession</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Enforcing
Contracts</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lochner
v. New York</i>
(1905)</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dealing
with Uncertainty</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Unconscionability</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*Willpower
Lapses</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
Endowment Effect</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Default
Rules</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Organ
Donations, Reprise</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*Selling
Kidneys</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vice,
Rationality, and Defaults</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*Re-legalizing
Drugs</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> *</span>An
Option to Commit to Opting Out: Self-Exclusion</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*Preventive
and Punitory Measures, Again</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>*A Happy
Ending?</div>
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References</div>
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*Glossary </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-83958452234854369622014-07-15T14:02:00.001-07:002014-07-15T14:03:16.444-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update XIIThe schedule for revisions to the Law and Econ manuscript now looks like this. (I have to intersperse them with my work on <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-next-challenge.html">a new kidney paper</a>.) By the end of July, I want to have new versions of each of the Chapters. I am working on Chapter Two now. (This is a different <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2012/02/law-and-econ-project-table-of-contents.html">Chapter Two from two years ago</a>, as the end bits of Chapter One were siphoned off to form the basis of the new Chapter Two. So now there are six chapters.) I also want to complete the Glossary, which I currently am only about one-third of the way through. I want to print the end of July version, and then, by August 15, have produced a new complete draft. Finally, at the end of August, a third version should appear, one that I hope to submit to the unnamed university press publisher as the "final" version. Did I mention that the working title has evolved into <i>Concepts in Law and Economics: A Guide for the Curious</i>?<br />
<br />
As for book reading related to the Law and Econ project, I have made lots of progress but not finished the <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Harrisons-Law-Economics-Nutshell-Series-ebook/dp/B00AUE0KMO/ref=pd_sim_kstore_19?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DCW7G79KTBZB0T85246">nutshell series book on Law and Economics</a> mentioned in the <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2014/04/law-and-econ-project-update-xi-and.html">previous post</a>. One book I did finish and found both helpful and fascinating is <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Bentham-Guide-Perplexed-Guides/dp/0826495907/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1405457785&sr=1-1&keywords=bentham%3A+guide+perplexed"><i>Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed</i></a>, by Philip Schofield, though the similarity of our subtitles is a coincidence. This book motivated me to visit <a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/who/autoicon">Jeremy in person</a> a couple weeks ago. <br />
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In early August I am slated to deliver two lectures related to the material in the book. I already am getting nervous over the prospect of preparing Power Point slides. I usually don't employ such slides, but the audience will involve some non-native English speakers, and I have found slides to be useful in similar settings in the past. But preparing the lectures might help me revise the manuscript, too, or at least I can hope.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-88500132129330348402014-04-14T10:12:00.002-07:002014-04-14T10:22:29.603-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update XI, and a ContractWell, here's some news: unnamed university press would like to publish the Law and Econ tome. And as I would like them to publish it, we have a meeting of the minds, and a signed contract. My goal is to send the "final" version, one I am happy with, on September 1, 2014 -- no snickering from those who recall some past (passed) deadlines. Lots of revisions to go, and as I mentioned before, I will start with the suggestions of the four reviewers. As I am looking over the current version, I see some holes that require completely new material, and that always takes some time. So I have a hard time laying out a schedule of revisions. But first I will go through the manuscript, without referencing the review comments (though even I remember some of them). Then I will start making the changes that I have identified, in concert with trying to address the reviewers' concerns. I have already looked over about 40% of the manuscript, and I hope to complete this first step, the remaining 60%, this week, let's say, by Saturday, April 19. Then, just two weeks or so later, on Sunday, May 4, I would like to have a new draft, with reviewer comments accounted for, in hand.Oh, here's a thought, I will have that version bound, to ease the next round of reading and revising.<br />
<br />
In committing to reading, hmmm, well, I have never read the <a href="http://smile.amazon.com/Harrisons-Law-Economics-Nutshell-Series-ebook/dp/B00AUE0KMO/ref=pd_sim_kstore_19?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DCW7G79KTBZB0T85246">nutshell series book on Law and Economics</a>, though I have started it. Now seems like a good time to take that on!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-18442111367584350962014-01-29T10:09:00.004-08:002014-01-29T10:10:55.705-08:00Law and Econ Project, Update X, etc.OK, there has been a 16-month hiatus in posting. Does that mean there has been a 16-month hiatus in progress on the Law and Econ draft? Discriminating folks like myself are unwilling to reveal that sort of sensitive information.<br />
<br />
But where do things stand? Well, I sent a revised -- yes, so there, there was "progress," I knew you would get it out of me -- manuscript to unnamed university press in October of 2013, and have received back three helpful sets of comments, with a fourth one in the pipeline, it seems. Irrespective of the manuscript's fate at unnamed university press, I feel like a few months of revisions are ahead of me -- even with my low standards, the manuscript isn't quite where I would like it to be right now. As for the nature of those revisions, I think for the first pass I will follow the advice of the anonymous reviewers. The hope is that the "continuous improvement" project will result in a tighter, more coherent manuscript. Right now I am happy with many of the individual sections, but not with the overall package. Perhaps I'll save more details for a follow-up post.<br />
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One part of the LandE project that has been upgraded, I think, is that concerning selling kidneys -- actually, multiple sections of the manuscript involve kidney sales, oddly enough. These revisions owe a lot to my friend <a href="http://www.cla.auburn.edu/economics/directory/professorial-faculty/t-beard/">Randy Beard</a>, an expert on organ procurement, who kindly co-authored a <a href="http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2013/03/organs-and-inducements-at-duke.html">symposium</a> paper with me; a less-than-final version of the paper is <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDUQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Feconomics.uchicago.edu%2Fworkshops%2FLeitzel%2520Kidney%2520Compensation%2520May%252024%25202013.pdf&ei=qEHpUu6dDMmOrAGx1IH4Dw&usg=AFQjCNGYze7W2yEi4yC7J_Wsjvgb-qqkfQ&sig2=4zgce4oH_npXK7-9ysOqEw&bvm=bv.60157871,d.aWM&cad=rja">here, in pdf format</a>.<br />
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Back when this blog was "active" I used it to mention books that I was intending to read -- books both related and unrelated to the Law and Econ project. I am happy to report that in 2012 <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2012/09/law-and-econ-project-update-ix.html">I really did finish reading</a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Knockoff-Economy-Imitation-Innovation/dp/0195399781/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0"><i>The Knockoff Economy </i></a>by Raustiala and Sprigman. Subsequently, I read three of the <a href="http://global.oup.com/academic/content/series/o/oxford-introductions-to-us-law-sil/?cc=us&lang=en">Oxford Introductions to American Law</a> (Contracts, Property, and Torts, in that order -- I liked Torts the best), though I could do with a refresher on much (or all) of the material. The books that are in the pipeline by and large I am not willing to commit to reading at this point, even to the limited extent to which mentioning them on a blog is committing. Some of my reading continues to be devoted to behavioral economics, which I am slated to teach for the third time in the spring. <br />
<br />
Today's return to nDrafts was motivated by a return to <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">Five Drafts</a>, a return that was itself motivated by a need to produce a vice policy paper in the next couple of months. And I have other blog projects that require attention, oh yes they do...<br />
<br />
Well, it is good to be back with my online to-do list, even though it is hard to say why.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-13763715307963349402012-09-23T09:07:00.000-07:002012-09-23T09:07:13.136-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update IXThe revisions that I foresaw in August were to:<br />
<br />
(1) update Chapter One and the wealth maximization stuff;<br />
(2) "think
about revising the material on organ markets in light of Michael
Sandel's book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Money-Cant-Buy-Markets/dp/0374203032/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344225324&sr=1-1&keywords=sandel+what+money+can%27t+buy"><i>What Money Can't Buy</i></a>";<br />
(3) and to print out a new, complete version.<br />
In some sense I have accomplished all three, though the thinking about Sandel's book and organ markets has not resulted in any alterations to this point. The changes to Chapter One were pretty extensive, and I also changed the vice material in Chapter Five quite a bit -- though that chapter remains in flux.<br />
<br />
What next? I think that I will prepare a subsection on the Sandel critique and organ markets, although whether it makes it into the manuscript is too soon to tell. The flux in Chapter Five has to be brought to an end. Beyond that, just the continuous improvement story...<br />
<br />
My Law and Econ class starts soon, and that will help the revision process, I hope. One book that I intend to read in the next few weeks is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Knockoff-Economy-Imitation-Innovation/dp/0195399781/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0"><i>The Knockoff Economy </i></a>by Raustiala and Sprigman -- I already draw heavily upon their earlier work for the "Copyright Vacuums" part of the manuscript. <br />
<br />
I mentioned in August that I am facing a deadline for a paper on
Behavioral Economics and Drug Policy. The deadline has become pressing, without much progress so far, though I have secured a co-author! I imagine the next nDrafts update will concern that paper. But in the meantime, I have taken on another paper commitment, this one on organ procurement; again, I am soliciting for a co-author.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-67132148462876922522012-08-05T21:04:00.002-07:002012-08-05T21:06:21.771-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update VIIIWell, three months have passed since <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2012/05/law-and-econ-project-update-vii.html">I last recorded</a> my progress to date and proclaimed my intended next steps. I have been busy with some other projects -- a trip abroad, moving house, being ill -- that have crowded out, to some extent, Law and Econ. The goals I previously set looking one week forward, however... <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
(1) to finish reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Museums-Matter-Encyclopedic-University-Campbell/dp/0226126773/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335990237&sr=1-1"><i>Museums Matter</i></a>, by James Cuno<i></i>;
(2) to revise the first two chapters of the L&E manuscript; and (3)
to produce a new version of "The Museum of Law and Economics"... </blockquote>
....have been accomplished, if not in one week, at least within three months. I managed to read, as hoped, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benefits/dp/B004NSVE50/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335989890&sr=1-3"><i>The Upside of Irrationality</i></a>, by Dan Ariely. I also wrote a new Conclusions section to the L&E manuscript, and have upgraded Chapter Five (on behavioral law and econ, essentially), along with slight revisions to the rest of the manuscript. <br />
<br />
The next couple of months will involve producing a draft of a paper on Behavioral Economics and Drug Policy, so that also will cut into Law and Econ time. (I am thinking of reviving <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">predecessor blog Five Drafts</a> for the purpose of producing the new paper.) What I would like to do pretty soon, however (recall that the manuscript is supposed to be in continuous improvement mode), is to revise the Kaldor-Hicks and Wealth Maximization stuff in Chapter One in a pretty serious way, to think about revising the material on organ markets in light of Michael Sandel's book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Money-Cant-Buy-Markets/dp/0374203032/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344225324&sr=1-1&keywords=sandel+what+money+can%27t+buy"><i>What Money Can't Buy</i></a>, and to print out a new, complete version of the manuscript. Not sure I have any Law and Econ reading I want to commit to, but I do hope to spend lots of time with Kaplow and Shavell's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fairness-versus-Welfare-Louis-Kaplow/dp/0674023641/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344225570&sr=1-1&keywords=kaplow%2C+shavell%2C+fairness"><i>Fairness Versus Welfare</i></a> -- a book that will help guide me, I think, in those envisioned Wealth Maximization changes in Chapter One.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-4490532292307793752012-05-02T13:30:00.001-07:002012-05-02T13:30:53.845-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update VIINow my worries, that in the absence of an externally-imposed deadline this commitment blog isn't a big help, are growing. But we press on. April 4 brought a new, bound version of the manuscript, this one even with a (half-baked) "Conclusions" chapter. The Table of Contents has not (otherwise) changed, though there was some upgrading of all of the chapters. Still haven't heard back from that university press that <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2012/02/law-and-econ-project-update-vi.html">I sent the even worse draft to</a> -- not a good sign. <br />
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I did indeed give <a href="http://www.chicagobooth.edu/alumni/events/showEvent.aspx?eventId=3303">the related talk </a>on April 1, and that went pretty well. Afterwards, I wrote up a short talk (maybe 15 minutes) entitled "The Museum of Law of Economics," which I have had fun with. I hope to move that talk, as well as the new draft, into the "continuous improvement" mode. I don't much care for the current "Conclusions" to the draft manuscript, and may start that afresh as part of the improvement. For that matter, I don't like the Conclusions to the <i>Museum</i> talk, either. Conclusions are the bane of my existence.<br />
<br />
Finished reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human-Strength/dp/1594203075/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1335990575&sr=1-1-spell"><i>Willpower</i>,</a> which was easy reading and helpful for my Behavioral Econ class. Intended reading that I hope will be helpful for the L&E project includes <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Museums-Matter-Encyclopedic-University-Campbell/dp/0226126773/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335990237&sr=1-1"><i>Museums Matter</i></a>, by James Cuno; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Judges-Think-Pims-Immigration/dp/0674048067/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335990279&sr=1-1"><i>How Judges Think</i></a>, by Richard Posner; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Upside-Irrationality-Unexpected-Benefits/dp/B004NSVE50/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335989890&sr=1-3"><i>The Upside of Irrationality</i></a>, by Dan Ariely (more for Behavioral Econ than for L&E); and possibly <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Loot-Battle-Stolen-Treasures-Ancient/dp/B003R4ZIYE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335990327&sr=1-1"><i>Loot</i></a>, by Sharon Waxman. I have started reading all of them, but only Cuno and Ariely are on the front burners right now.<br />
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So, what to promise in a not-very-committed way? Next week, to have: (1) finished reading <i>Museums Matter</i>; (2) revised the first two chapters of the L&E manuscript; and (3) to have produced a new version of "The Museum of Law and Economics." Onwards...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-85140987226438580722012-02-29T16:53:00.001-08:002012-02-29T16:53:43.234-08:00Law and Econ Project, Table of ContentsAs promised....<br />
<br />
Oh, Work in Progress has the temporary title <i>Law and Economics: A Guide for the Curious</i>. My guess is that the title will change a few more times.<br />
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Table of Contents<br />
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Introduction</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Original of Laura</i></div>
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Choice in
the Shadow of the Law</div>
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Chapter 1: E pluribus unum</div>
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Robin</div>
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Efficiency</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Jeremy
Bentham</div>
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The Art of
the Deal</div>
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Willingness-to-pay</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Why
Maximize Wealth?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Common
Law and Civil Law</div>
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The Coase
Theorem</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Establishing
a Market to Erode Rent Controls</div>
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The Coase
Corollary</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
More on
Property Rights and Efficiency: The Tragedy of the Commons</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Reverse
of the Medal: Property Rights and the Anticommons</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Contracts</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Efficiency
When?</div>
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Expectation
Damages and Efficient Breach</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr., on Bad Men and the Law</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Accidents</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Strict
Liability</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Negligence</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Crime</div>
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Chapter 2: What’s done is done?</div>
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Bart and
Lance</div>
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Chicago Dibs</div>
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Patents</div>
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Advance Market Commitments</div>
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Preventive
and Punitory Measures</div>
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Firearm
Regulation</div>
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John
Stuart Mill</div>
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Low
Probability, High Punishment Regimes</div>
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Destruction
of Property: What’s Done Cannot Be Undone?</div>
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Moral
Rights: What’s Done Cannot Be Redone?</div>
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Intellectual
Property: What’s Done Can Be Done Repeatedly</div>
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Public
Goods</div>
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Nabokov and
Existence Value</div>
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Chapter 3: Squeezing a balloon</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Using the
Law to Serve Distributional Goals</div>
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The
Peltzman Effect</div>
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Art Again:
Resale Rights, or Droit de Suite</div>
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Squeezing
Copyright</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Creative
Commons</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">De Facto</i> Liberalization of the Copyright
Regime</div>
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A World
Without Copyright</div>
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Copyright
Vacuums</div>
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Fashion
Design</div>
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Comedy</div>
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Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails</div>
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Squeezing
Newspapers</div>
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Hyperlocal
News</div>
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Deflating
Subsidies</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Chapter 4: Deorum injuriae Diis curae</div>
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Low-cost Avoider
or Insurer</div>
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Products
Liability</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Comparative
Negligence</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Foreseeable
Misuse and Attractive Nuisance</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Mill and
the Harm Principle</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Pecuniary
Externalities</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Blocked
Exchanges</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Organ
Markets</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The
Iranian Kidney Transplant Program</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Parthenon
Marbles and Cultural Property</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Statutes
of Limitation</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Standards
of Proof</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Chapter 5: Crooked timber</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Enforcing
Contracts</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lochner v. New York</i> (1905)</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Dealing
with Uncertainty</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Unconscionability</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The Endowment
Effect</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Default
Rules</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Organ
Donations, Reprise</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Vice,
Rationality, and Defaults</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Attractive
Nuisance for Adults?</div>
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Conclusions (unwritten) </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
Glossary (unwritten)</div>
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I missed the deadline, but progress has been made, oh yes. The current draft is in the continuous revision phase. There is still no draft of the Conclusions, and no draft of the Glossary. The next revisions are slated for Chapters 4 and 5. I will shortly post the draft Table of Contents so we can see where things stand.<br />
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I prepared a prospectus and e-mailed it to a university press. The editor responded enthusiastically, and asked for the entire manuscript. I sent it, but haven't heard back - maybe the draft needs some more of that "continuous revision" before it is ready for distribution?<br />
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As for my reading plan, I managed to finish <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Enlightened-Walpole-Eighteenth-C/dp/0300169272/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316647741&sr=1-1"><i>Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life</i>, by Nicholas Phillipson</a> -- it is superb. I abandoned for the nonce <a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Country-Drugs-History/dp/0470643897/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432663&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is Your Country on Drugs</span>, by Ryan Grim</a>
(2010), and managed to read only small portions of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-American-Criminal-Justice/dp/0674051750/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321142875&sr=1-1"><i>The Collapse of American Criminal Justice</i></a>,
by William J. Stuntz (2011). The Daniel Kahneman book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374275637/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330562579&sr=1-1"><i>Thinking, Fast and Slow</i> (2011)</a>, filled my time, and helped me decide to offer a course in behavioral economics next quarter. My current reading plan centers on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human-Strength/dp/1594203075/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330561712&sr=1-1"><i>Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength</i></a>, by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney -- should be useful for that behavioral econ class.<br />
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As for LandE revisions, I intend to input some upgrades to Chapters 4 and 5 in the nest week or so. Hoping to get those Conclusions under way, too. I intend another bound version at that point. Scheduled to give a talk related to the manuscript on April 1, so want to prepare something for that, too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-64495358432544911502011-11-12T15:56:00.001-08:002011-11-12T16:14:21.955-08:00Law and Econ Project, Update VAlmost one month since the previous update, and less than a month to go before the due date of what I now will call the polished draft of my Law and Econ manuscript. Uh oh.<br />
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My plan from one month ago involved rewriting the Preface, and printing out and binding an entire working draft. These tasks have been completed. Note, however, that I have cannily omitted mentioning another part of the plan, which was to draft a section of conclusions -- no progress there, as you might suspect from my attempt to censor discussion.<br />
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I also planned to finish reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Enlightened-Walpole-Eighteenth-C/dp/0300169272/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316647741&sr=1-1"><i>Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life</i>, by Nicholas Phillipson</a> (2010) -- more failure. But I now have completed 213 of 284 pages of text, and I am keeping up with the endnotes as I go along. So I still have hopes of finishing this book, from which I am learning quite a bit. My other goal was to make some progress on reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Country-Drugs-History/dp/0470643897/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432663&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is Your Country on Drugs</span>, by Ryan Grim</a> (2010), and little has been achieved in this regard: I have read 32 of 252 pages. Hmmm. For December 11, let me toss one more book into the pile, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-American-Criminal-Justice/dp/0674051750/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321142875&sr=1-1"><i>The Collapse of American Criminal Justice</i></a>, by William J. Stuntz (2011). (Wow, in providing the Amazon link I read a review, which indicates that the author of this recently-published book has passed away. I hadn't heard this sad news before, though now I see that one of the blurbs on the back cover refers to the author's work in the past tense. Sad news indeed.) I have assigned one chapter of the Stuntz book to my Law and Econ class, too. <br />
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So what is left, writing-wise, for December 11? A full revision of the L&E manuscript, along with the preparation of the conclusions. Earlier I thought I might print out and bind an intermediate version before December 11, but now I am not so sure. Aiming for that polished draft, though....Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-17825609333394937882011-10-16T10:39:00.000-07:002011-10-16T10:39:02.077-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update IVToday's update is approximately two weeks late. This makes me question how effective a commitment device nDrafts is. Nonetheless, I will persevere.<br />
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At least some progress has been made in the last three weeks. I finished reading two books that I had committed to finishing, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/We-Have-Met-Enemy-Self-Control/dp/B0057D95AQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432245&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">We Have Met the Enemy</span> by Daniel Akst</a>
(2011), and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Property-History-How-What/dp/0674058054/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313372259&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">American Property</span></a> by Stuart Banner (2011). I assigned Banner's chapter on owning life (including body parts, corpses, and segments of the human genome) to my Law and Econ class; I think it offers a nice case study, of sorts, of how property rights regimes can respond to changes in costs and benefits.<br />
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As for my plans for my Law and Econ manuscript, I intended to digitize the edits to Chapter 5 -- done! (I have suffered a major computer breakdown, so I take more pride than usual at meeting this minimal goal.) The other goal was to send out a few chapters to canny (potential) readers for comment. Here, well, limited success. I am glad that I did send Chapter One to one very canny potential reader, but more chapters and maybe an additional reader or two might have been a good idea.<br />
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My commitment for the next update is to rewrite the Preface, merging in the Nabokov material (one day I will explain!) that currently resides in Chapter 2. I also would like to make a go at a Conclusions section -- these tend to present a roadblock for me. Most importantly, I want to print out (and maybe bind) the entire manuscript in its current form. After that, I will take a few weeks to produce (and print and bind) a revised draft, with yet one more (and final?) draft, as the nDrafts reader knows, being slated for printing and binding on December 11. <br />
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Two other books have been lingering in my "to read soon" pile. One is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Country-Drugs-History/dp/0470643897/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432663&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is Your Country on Drugs</span>, by Ryan Grim</a> (2010), and I will renew my intention and aim to make some progress this week. The second is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Enlightened-Walpole-Eighteenth-C/dp/0300169272/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316647741&sr=1-1"><i>Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life</i>, by Nicholas Phillipson</a> (2010); I have read the first 100 pages of this great book, and hope to finish it in the next week or two.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-51417171771595876432011-09-21T16:32:00.000-07:002011-09-21T16:33:44.806-07:00Law and Econ Project, Update IIIBack in Chicago again, after a trip that included <a href="http://law.newark.rutgers.edu/news-events/releases/rutgers-law-school-hosts-workshop-vice-and-crime">the stimulating vice symposium</a>. Have to revise <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1906752">the vice paper</a> in the next few months, but it is not yet pressing. Time to see how I did with my last plan, and to plan afresh.<br />
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I had a few goals in mind (and <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2011/09/law-and-econ-update-ii-mostly-vice.html">on blog</a>) for the vice symposium. I was supposed to read the five other papers for the symposium, and I read 4.5 of them. They contained a good deal of philosophy and law that was outside my ken, but they were fun reads and I learned a lot. I was supposed to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legalising-drugs-dilemmas-Philip-Bean/dp/1847423752/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432092&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Legalising Drugs</span> by Philip Bean</a> (2010), and I managed to do that. I found the book to be disappointing, though I appreciated the extensive information about drug-related crime and prostitution. The book has a tendency, I think, to cite rather uninspiring legalization advocates (though the steady <a href="http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/">Transform</a> receives a lot of attention), and to hold their shortcomings against legalization regimes in general. The problem of how to maintain a post-legalization ban on sales to minors is conducted as if alcohol and tobacco don't already face that problem, and as if it represents a near-fatal inconsistency in legalization programs. The bar for legalization seems to be set too high, where it cannot be experimented with unless it is known in advance that it will be an improvement on prohibition. <i>Legalising Drugs</i> did make me think that my paper and related efforts have value, however, because they can allay some of the fears that permeate Bean's book.<br />
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I also was supposed to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/We-Have-Met-Enemy-Self-Control/dp/B0057D95AQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432245&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">We Have Met the Enemy</span> by Daniel Akst</a>
(2011). I didn't do this, but I have made it to page 224 (out of 278), so I hope to complete it soon. The book is full of interesting information on self-control, though at this point, it doesn't quite come together for me. Sort of less than the sum of its parts. Still, I am enjoying it. I mentioned the possibility of reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Country-Drugs-History/dp/0470643897/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432663&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is Your Country on Drugs</span>, by Ryan Grim</a> (2010), but this book still lies in the future for me.<br />
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On Law and Econ, I had modest goals, but failed to meet them. I wanted to "convert the hard-copy changes for Chapters 4 and 5 to e-format." I managed to do this for Chapter 4 -- and to write a brief new section on John Stuart Mill -- but have only begun on Chapter 5. So completing the Chapter 5 edits is my first L&E goal for the coming week. Other goals include sending out drafts of some chapters to a few unlucky individuals. (I already distributed earlier drafts of Chapters one and two to a few folks.) I must get the syllabus together for my L&E class, too. I'll try to check back in to nDrafts in eight days or so, after I have taught the first week of L&E.<br />
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A <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2011/08/inauspicious-start.html">neglected earlier L&E goal</a> was to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Property-History-How-What/dp/0674058054/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313372259&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">American Property</span></a>, by Stuart Banner. I will revive that goal at this point; so far, I am to page 204 of 291. Following Banner, I hope to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Adam-Smith-Enlightened-Walpole-Eighteenth-C/dp/0300169272/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316647741&sr=1-1"><i>Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life</i>, by Nicholas Phillipson</a>; this is both out of general interest and to help with my teaching of Smith this quarter.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-8528695177942961582011-09-07T14:30:00.000-07:002011-09-07T15:01:49.271-07:00Law and Econ Update II -- Mostly ViceBack from the trip, where Law and Econ was not a priority. I did manage to finish reading the (excellent) book about Friedrich Engels, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marxs-General-Revolutionary-Friedrich-Engels/dp/080509248X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314469514&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Marx's General,</span> by Tristram Hunt</a>, as hoped, and did make some hard-copy revisions to Chapters 4 and 5 of the Law and Econ project.<br /><br />Next week I have the vice symposium that sparked <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">the Five Drafts project</a>. So, once again, Law and Econ will take a back seat, though I do want to convert the hard-copy changes for Chapters 4 and 5 to e-format. For the vice symposium, I would like to read the five other papers that will be presented, as well as a book or two. The two books that I will commit (?) to reading are <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legalising-drugs-dilemmas-Philip-Bean/dp/1847423752/ref=sr_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432092&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Legalising Drugs</span> by Philip Bean</a> (2010) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/We-Have-Met-Enemy-Self-Control/dp/B0057D95AQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432245&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">We Have Met the Enemy</span> by Daniel Akst</a> (2011). The Bean book takes a prohibitionist stance to drugs -- a stance I do not share -- so I am hoping that it will sharpen my thinking (change my mind??); the Akst book is about self-c0ntrol, a topic that is <a href="http://selfexclusion.blogspot.com/">central to my vice work</a>. The Akst book is significantly longer than the short Bean volume, but it is written in an engaging manner that should ease any pain from excessive reading. A third book, one that I am unlikely to get to before the symposium, alas, but hope to read soon, is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Country-Drugs-History/dp/0470643897/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315432663&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">This is Your Country on Drugs</span>, by Ryan Grim</a> (2010).Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-40603047055288902622011-08-27T11:16:00.000-07:002011-08-27T11:28:48.589-07:00Law and Econ UpdateHeading to the airport presently, but updating nDrafts is a priority. I did indeed complete this round of revisions for Chapters 2 and 3; even managed to continue to tinker with the wealth maximization stuff in Chapter 1. None of them are in final form, alas. As for reading, I <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2011/08/inauspicious-start.html">was aiming</a> to get to page (.6*291= about) 175 of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Property-History-How-What/dp/0674058054/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313372259&sr=1-1">the Banner book</a> on property law. Here, less successful, though I am 56% of the way through, at page 164.
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<br />My reading during my trip will not be focused on the Law and Econ project. I will try to read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Marxs-General-Revolutionary-Friedrich-Engels/dp/080509248X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314469514&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Marx's General</span> by Tristram Hunt</a>; I teach some Marx in the fall, and this book is about Friedrich Engels. In an effort not to neglect L&E too much, however, I also intend to make some revisions on the hard copies of Chapters 4 and 5.
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<br />Hope to check back in in about 9 days...
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-39296966223437761272011-08-21T21:42:00.000-07:002011-08-21T22:02:55.199-07:00Inauspicious StartMy goals for the past week were to <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2011/08/law-and-economics-project.html">make revisions to Chapter 2 and to prepare revisions for Chapter 3</a>; plus, I <a href="http://ndrafts.blogspot.com/2011/08/reading-this-week.html">hoped to make it halfway</a> through <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Property-History-How-What/dp/0674058054/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313372259&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">American Property</span></a>, by Stuart Banner. Things didn't quite work out as intended.
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<br />I have prepared but not finished making (that is, entering into the computer) revisions of Chapter 2; I did not look at Chapter 3. The Banner book is 291 pages of normal text, followed by many pages of notes, which I keep up with as I read the text. So to be halfway through, I would have to have read about 146 pages of the text. In truth, I have finished but 104 pages, about 35% done. So my plans were under-fulfilled for both reading and writing.
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<br />The good news is that I wrote a couple of short pieces on vice policy -- one on drugs, one on casino gambling. Not sure either of them will ever see the light of day, but I can derive a sense of accomplishment from such minor victories. I also returned to Chapter 1 and changed the Kaldor-Hicks material -- eliminating the use of the Kaldor-Hicks terminology -- and added a short section on willingness-to-pay. The Banner book also contributed to Chapter 1, in discussing the development of the law of takings. Specifically, when does the government have to pay compensation for a regulation that reduces the value of privately owned property? Banner gives a nice historical discussion of how this law developed.
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<br />At the end of the week I will be heading out of town, and will be beyond work for a week or so. I will try to check into nDrafts on Friday, then. What do I hope to have accomplished by then? Uh, how about finish entering those revisions to Chapter 2, plus make the Chapter 3 revisions? I'll aim to have 60% of the Banner book behind me at that point, too -- I already am scaling back my ambitions.
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-17703576278685049022011-08-14T18:35:00.000-07:002011-08-14T18:40:32.480-07:00Reading this WeekI eventually used <a href="http://fivedrafts.blogspot.com/">the Five Drafts project</a> to commit to reading as well as to writing, and I will try to extend that feature to nDrafts, too. For this week, my Law and Econ reading goal is to get at least halfway into <a href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Property-History-How-What/dp/0674058054/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313372259&sr=1-1"><span style="font-style: italic;">American Property</span></a>, by Stuart Banner (Harvard University Press, 2011). I have some other academic reading that is not related to the Law and Econ Work in Progress, but I am not ready to commit to that just yet.
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321359107283280546.post-11763489447436781642011-08-14T18:16:00.000-07:002011-08-14T18:55:41.610-07:00The Law and Economics ProjectThe project that I would like to make serious progress on during the rest of 2011 involves a book manuscript concerning Law and Economics. Five chapters (out of an envisioned, er, five chapters (plus preface and conclusions and other extraneous(?) material)) already exist in rough draft form. My goal is to revise and improve these chapters, create the related non-chapterial material, and mold the whole thing into a sleek, coherent, publishable book. Or at least to develop a complete manuscript that is not too embarrassing.
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<br />OK, maybe I will invoke a deadline or two, in the spirit of the nDraft commitment device. December 11, 2011: by that date I would like to have a complete, new and improved draft of the Law and Econ book. Notice that I do not yet have a title, or at least one I am willing to publicize -- OK, I'll have to come up with a title by December 11, too. In honor of James Joyce, perhaps the draft manuscript for the time being will go by the name<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake"> fragments from Work in Progress</a>.
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<br />During the upcoming week, I want to make revisions to Chapter Two, and begin to revise Chapter Three. "Making" revisions entails entering the changes into the e-copy, not just producing comments on a hard copy.
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