Law and economics began at the Univ...

Law and economics began at the University of Chicago with the pioneering work of Henry Simons in the tax area and Aaron Director in succession antitrust. Ronald Coase contributed "The enigma of Social Cost," sometimes said to be the greatest in quantity cited article in the history of economics, and launched the serious investigation of tort and property law from the economic perspective. The antitrust mantle was carried forward by way of such Chicago connected scholars as Robert Bork, Frank Easterbrook, William Landes and Richard Posner Their critique of antitrust doctrine as it had emerg in the 1960 and 1970 revolutionized the field, likewise much ...