Access Restricted to Northwestern Law CommunityBad Public Goods
Monday, September 15th - Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
The goal of this Research Symposium is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern University 's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high quality research relevant to Bad Public Goods.
The conference is organized by Professor David D. Haddock, Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Northwestern University School of Law.
Presenters:
- Bruce L. Benson, DeVoe L. Moore Professor and Distinguished Research Professor, and Chair, Florida State University Department of Economics
The War On Drugs: A Public Bad - Alison Berry, Research Fellow, PERC
Forest Policy Up in Smoke: Fire Suppression in the United States - Lloyd Cohen, Professor of Law, George Mason University
The Many Virtues of a Market In Transplant Organs - Peter Z. Grossman, Clarence Efroymson Professor of Economics, Butler University College of Business Administration
The History of U.S. Alternative Energy Development Programs: A Study of Government Failure - David D. Haddock, Professor of Law & Economics, Northwestern University, and PERC
CAFE – the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Mandate - P. J. Hill, George F. Bennett Professor of Business and Economics, Wheaton College, and PERC
The Bureau of Reclamation: Public Good Provider or Rent Transferring Agency? - Clark McCauley, Professor of Psychology, Bryn Mawr College
Tragic Iterations: Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism - Jane Shaw, President, J.W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, and PERC
Competition in Higher Education: Does It Mitigate the “Quis Custodiet” Problem? - William F. Shughart II, F. A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi, Department of Economics
Disaster Relief as a Bad Public Good - Richard Stroup, Professor and Chair Emeritus, Montana State University, Visiting Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University, and PERC
Why Good Managers Do Bad Things: The Case of Superfund - Robert Thompson, Gardner Chair in Agricultural Policy; University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Links between Global Warming, Biofuels and Agriculture - Kevin K. Washburn, Distinguished Rosenstiel Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
The Federal Trust Responsibility in the Age of Tribal Self Determination: Examining the Practical Ramifications of Federal Review of Tribal Economic Decisions in Indian Gaming in the Modern Era - Martin Zelder, Senior Lecturer of Economics, Northwestern University
The Intrinsic Social Cost of Public Goods: Revising (Downward) the Optimal Size of Government
Participants:
- Thompson Ayodele, Director, Initiative for Public Policy Analysis, Lagos, Nigeria
- Federico Boffa, Professor of Economics, University of Macerata, Italia
- Dao Boyle, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago
- Henry N. Butler, Executive Director, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth, Northwestern University School of Law
- Cristiano Carvalho, Professor of Law at Unisinos and Director of the Brazilian Association of Law and Economics
- Andy Chen, Commissioner, Taiwanese Fair Trade Commission, Taipei & Adjunct, Chuan-Yuan Christian University, Chung Li
- Juan Javier del Granado, Profesor de Derecho y Economía, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México & President ALACDE
- Geoff Hogbin, Economist, Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney , NSW, Australia
- Peter Lindsey, Biologist, Savé Valley Conservancy, Chiredzi, Zimbabwe
Contact
For more information regarding this conference or other initiatives of the Searle Center, please send an email to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu or call (312) 503-1811.
