Hi! I want to thank Christine and Gordon for giving me the opportunity to guest blog here for a little while. I planned to do this at the end of june, but, what with antitrust review post merger, I decided to wait until the all clear was sounded. I come here most directly from a guest-stint Prawfsblawg, which was great fun, even when I foolishly blogged out of my subject matter area.
So, returning to areas where I am more competent, I wanted my first post here to spotlight an interesting new anthology out of Cornell Press, Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus (Fineman and Dougherty, eds.) There are contributions by a variety of folks, including the inimitable Deirdre McCloskey and my friend Doug Kysar. Doug's essay in particular is a great deal of fun. It responds to the argument (made by Neil Buchanan) that it is "dangerous to adapt neoclassical economic models to feminist legal analysis", because L&E is inherently corrupting. Doug notes that some have even compared L&E to the Australian rabbit epidemic (incidentally, this ecological catastrophe engendered a great Simpson's episode.) Doug ends his essay by rejecting the call to leave L&E to the economists:
[I]f economics really is an invasive force on a par with the Australian rabbit epidemic, then Buchanan's advice could only ever lead to a Pyrrhic victory: feminist legal scholars would remain free from invasion, but they would be forced only an isolated research station with nothing but Antarctica to the south and a billion chattering bunnies to the north . . . .
That, in a nutshell, is basically how I feel about being a (progressive) corporate and securities scholar. Can't embrace the dominant paradigm; can't ignore it either.
Anyway, glad to be here!
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