Law & Economics Prof Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-2776072016-05-17T10:37:32-07:00A Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePadLaw & Economics Prof Blog Seeks New Editorstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b8d1e77b69970c2016-05-17T10:37:32-07:002016-05-17T10:38:16-07:00The Law & Economics Prof Blog is on hiatus while we try to put together a new team of editors. The Law Professor Blogs Network offers law professors the premier blogging platform and the opportunity to share in growing sponsorship...Law Professor Blogs LLCComma Heterodoxytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b7c8173a0a970b2016-02-18T08:05:22-08:002017-05-31T07:39:22-07:00In my last post I wrote: A. “This is an ingenious, and, after a bit of thought, plausible, justification.” An alternative is: B. “This is an ingenious, and after a bit of thought plausible, justification.” The conventional punctuation would be,...Eric Rasmusen"To Each According to His Need," Including Operatag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b7c817397e970b2016-02-18T08:00:49-08:002016-02-18T08:00:49-08:00Taxprof reports on Miranda Fleischer's latest: Miranda Perry Fleischer (San Diego), How is the Opera Like a Soup Kitchen?, in The Philosophical Foundations of Tax Law (Oxford University Press, 2016): The charitable tax subsidies are, at heart, redistributive. Some individuals...Eric RasmusenAt Missouri, Humanities Professors Support a Communications Professor; at Yale, Science Professors Support a Sociology and Psychology Professortag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01bb08a9ed7e970d2016-01-09T22:19:58-08:002016-01-11T13:34:50-08:00What induces professors to sign letters of support for their colleagues who are under attack? I was under public attack a few years back, and although few actual faculty members attacked me (the Chancellor being an exception, while chairing a...Eric RasmusenMust the Directors Keep the Corporation's Taxes Low If They Can?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b8d189ec14970c2015-12-29T14:09:52-08:002015-12-29T14:09:52-08:00I just read about Freedman v. Adams, 2012 Del. Ch. LEXIS 74, at *45-46 (Del. Ch. Mar. 30, 2012) at Taxprof and the original discussion by Prof. Hemel at the Chicago Law blog. It's a good example of a corporate...Eric RasmusenThe Cost to Harvard Law School of Repudiating the Royall Bequesttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b7c7f6eef2970b2015-12-07T21:32:25-08:002015-12-07T21:32:25-08:00Some students at Harvard Law School want to eliminate the Royall crest from its seal on account of donor Royall’s slaveowning. Presumably this means they want to repudiate the Royall gift. How much money would that cost the Law School,...Eric RasmusenThe Value of Skadden's Tax Opinion Letter in the Yahoo Alibaba Spinoff Dealtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b7c7f5bc77970b2015-12-05T14:46:51-08:002015-12-05T14:46:51-08:00Professor Victor Fleischer's just written Yahoo’s Spinoff Plan Could Be Risky Business for the New York Times. Yahoo is thinking of spinning off its stock in Alibaba as a separate entity, but this could result in huge taxes on the...Eric RasmusenZuckerberg's use of an LLC for giving away his fortune--what good is it? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b8d17ea2df970c2015-12-03T18:57:13-08:002015-12-03T18:57:31-08:00Mark Zuckerberg has announced he is setting up an LLC as a way to give away 99% of his fortune, which consists mainly of Facebook stock. I was puzzled by this at first, because doing it this way has no...Eric RasmusenSchmeiser et al.: Informing student borrowers about debt burdens reduces borrowingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01b8d1716250970c2015-11-04T12:48:51-08:002015-11-04T12:48:51-08:00"Does Salient Financial Information Affect Academic Performance and Borrowing Behavior Among College Students?" FEDS Working Paper No. FEDGFE2015-75 MAXIMILIAN D. SCHMEISER, Federal Reserve Board CHRISTIANA STODDARD, Montana State University - Bozeman CARLY URBAN, Montana State University - Bozeman - Department...BDGBuonanno & Vanin: Social Cohesion Lowers Some Crime, Increases Tax Avoidancetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01bb08831116970d2015-10-17T06:39:21-07:002015-10-17T06:39:51-07:00"Social Closure, Surnames and Crime" Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N° 1032 PAOLO BUONANNO, University of Bergamo - Department of Economics PAOLO VANIN, University of Bologna - Department of Economics This paper studies the effect of social closure on crime...BDG