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GMU Economics Professor, Don Boudreaux, provides us with a Manneian defense of insider trading in the October 24 edition of the Wall Street Journal.
I wrote my dissertation on insider trading and corporate governance. The literature, theoretical and empirical, on insider trading is just plain huge and with time I came to slightly change my opinion [...]

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CSI and the Peltzman Effect


I am a huge fan of the TV show CSI. This morning I was watching this week show, “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda” and imagine my surprise when character Nick Stokes describes use Sam Peltzman’s works to explain why two high school students, while wearing their seatbelts, killed themselves when they crashed their car into a tree:
The [...]

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