David Gindis (Warwick Law School) and Steven G. Medema (Duke University, Department of Economics) have posted Henry Manne, Pareto in the Pines, and the Origins of the Law and Economics Movement on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Law and economics—or the application of economic reasoning and methods to the study of law—was a niche topic of study at Chicago and Yale in 1950s and 1960s, before coming out of the wilderness in the early 1970s and becoming an institutionalized feature of American legal education by the late 1980s.

David Gindis, University of Warwick Law School and Steven G. Medema, Duke University, Department of Economics, have published Henry Manne, P...

WINIR CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE (ROME, ITALY, JULY 2026) -- Governance refers to those rules that clearly bind, define, and enable an organization’s scope of ac...

WINIR CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE (ROME, ITALY, JULY 2026) -- Governance refers to those rules that clearly bind, define, and enable an organization’s scope of ac...

WINIR CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE (ROME, ITALY, JULY 2026) -- Governance refers to those rules that clearly bind, define, and enable an organization’s scope of ac...

WINIR CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE (ROME, ITALY, JULY 2026) -- Governance refers to those rules that clearly bind, define, and enable an organization’s scope of ac...

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Institutional Theory for Corporate Law: An Invitation with Dr David Gindis (Warwick University)

Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

The nature of the corporation remains one of the most contested questions in corporate law theory. In a recent working paper, Jenkin Chim and I defend real entity theory against critiques by profes…

Institutional Theory for Corporate Law: An Invitation with Dr David Gindis (Warwick University)

Reliance on agency-theoretic reasoning has led to substantial theoretical and empirical advances in company law scholarship, but the narrow focus on board-level actors and phenomena has disconnecte...

Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy invites submission of articles that present, discuss, or make innovative use of data and quantitative methods in the study of the history, philosophy, ...

WINIR CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE (ROME, ITALY, JULY 2026) -- Governance refers to those rules that clearly bind, define, and enable an organization’s scope of ac...

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This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.

In new research, David Gindis and Steven G. Medema trace Henry Manne’s entrepreneurial role in the development of the field of law and economics, beginning with a failed venture to bring together economists and legal scholars, but one that established the foundations for later success.

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Institutional Theory for Corporate Law: An Invitation 8 October 2025 (Wednesday, 14:30 to 16h) Online on Microsoft Teams Speaker: David Gindis Discussants: Fabrizio Esposito and Konrad Borowicz

The School of Law and the Department of Economics hosted the 55th Annual THETS Meeting from 3 to 5 September 2025. Annual meetings have been held since 1968, making THETS one of the oldest established...

The School of Law and the Department of Economics hosted the 55th Annual THETS Meeting from 3 to 5 September 2025. Annual meetings have been held since 1968, making THETS one of the oldest established...

In new research, David Gindis and Steven G. Medema trace Henry Manne’s entrepreneurial role in the development of the field of law and economics, beginning with a failed venture to bring together econ...

Abstract. This paper empirically studies the effects of the early law-and-economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institu

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