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Biographies High-Stakes Antitrust: The Last Hurrah? October 3, 2002
Robert H. Bork is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. His research focuses on antitrust law, constitutional law, and cultural issues. Mr. Bork served as a circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1982 to 1988. Previously, he was solicitor general at the U.S. Department of Justice and was acting attorney general of the United States from 1973 to 1974. Mr. Bork frequently contributes to periodicals including the Wall Street Journal, the National Review, and The Public Interest. He has appeared on television news show such as Good Morning America, Larry King Live Booknotes, and PBS’s NewsHour and Think Tank. Mr. Bork is the author of The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy at War with Itself (1993).
Robert W. Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. Previously, he served as a senior staff member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the American Economic Review, Science, and the Yale Law Journal. Most recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2000). In addition, Mr. Hahn is cofounder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Lawrence J. White is the Arthur E. Imperatore Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Previously, he served as a member on the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and was director of the Economic Policy Office at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1982–1983. Mr. White is editor or coeditor of nine volumes including the Journal of Industrial Economics (1984–1987; 1990–1995) and three editions of The Antitrust Revolution (1989, 1994, 1999). He has written extensively on the subject of regulation in industry and transportation. Mr. White served on the senior staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1978 to 1979 and was chairman of the Stern School’s Department of Economics from 1990 to 1995.
George L. Priest is the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School and the director of its Center for Study in Law, Economics, and Public Policy. Mr. Priest’s teachings focus on capitalism, insurance, product liability, antitrust, and economic development. During the Reagan administration he was a member of the Commission on Privatization. Mr. Priest is the author of articles on tort law, deregulation, antitrust, and economic analysis. Mr. Priest is a member of the American Enterprise Institute’s Council of Academic Advisers.
Richard L. Schmalensee is professor of economics and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the John C. Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 through 1991. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the International Academy of Management, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association. Mr. Schmalensee’s research has centered on industrial economics and its application to managerial and public policy issues, including antitrust, regulatory, and environmental policies. He has published over 100 articles in professional journals and books and is the author of three books and coauthor of five others. | |
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