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Exploring Judicial Self-Interest and Judicial Decisions

In an Essay forthcoming in the University of Illinois Law Review (2011:5), Measuring Maximizing Judges: Empirical Legal Studies, Public Choice Theory, and Judicial Behavior, Joanna Shepherd (Emory) surveys and summarizes the existing empirical literature assessing a public choice model of … Continue reading

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Self-Interest and Older Americans

[NOTE: The text below contains corrected text. In the fourth paragraph, I originally wrote that the estimated aggregate medical cost increase under the Republicans' proposed plan to replace Medicare with vouchers was $20 billion or $34 billion, depending on the … Continue reading

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