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Peter G. Klein
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Professor at @Baylor_Business and @NHHnor, research fellow at @Mises, writing on organizations, entrepreneurship, strategy, and economics.
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Posner was one of the most influential intellectuals of the late twentieth century. Like my mentors Murray Rothbard and Oliver Williamson, I was not an admirer of his work. But he changed the way economists think about law, and legal scholars think about economics.
We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.
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I was at that game! Sad.
This is what they’ve taken from us 💔View quoted post on X
“Public research and development can stimulate local economic activity, but its effects vary considerably across settings, are often modest, and may partly reflect the reallocation of activity from other places.” aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
www.aeaweb.org Can Government Support for Innovation Create the Next Silicon Valley? Can government support for innovation create the next Silicon Valley? We examine what public research and development can and cannot do to foster regional knowledge hubs. The historical record... Very interesting paper. There is also some evidence that exposure to early-life trauma increases the likelihood of entry into entrepreneurship. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
link.springer.com Childhood exposure to natural disasters and future entrepreneurship in adulthood Small Business Economics - Drawing on post-traumatic growth (PTG) theory as an overarching framework, we document the long-term effects of childhood exposure to natural disasters on... Does trauma make artists more original? 🎨
Using data on 39,000 paintings this paper shows that when Nazi Germany invaded their country, artists painted ~⅓ less, but their work became measurably more novel and also stayed that way after the war.
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