thanks! you, too Gene & Michael! On 8/30/07, Peter Hollings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Didn't Richard Schmalensee of MIT testify for Microsoft to the effect > that the positive "network effects" of many users sharing the same > software made it in the public interest not to break up the company? As > I recall, this came in the penalty phase of the trial AFTER MS had > already been adjudged guilty of violating the anti trust law, and > despite some 30,000 citizen letters pleading that the company be broken > up in service of the public interest. (There were some other egregious > aspects of the affair -- including events that led reasonable people to > believe that part of the deal, made shortly after 911, was to allow the > DOJ a back door into Windows computers.) > > Don't know of any compensation that he received. > > Peter Hollings > > PS: I'm an alum; but that made me all the more pissed off when it > happened. > > -----Original Message----- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Devine > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PEN-L] query: economist as hired gun > > > what's a good example of an economist -- preferably a well-known one > -- receiving a big fee for doing special pleading for some big > corporation or similar organization? > -- > Jim Devine / "In the years since the phrase became a cliché, I have > received any number of compliments for my supposed ability to 'think > outside the box.' Actually, it has been a struggle for me to perceive > just what these 'boxes' were — why they were there, why other people > regarded them as important, where their borderlines might be, how to > live safely within and without them." -- Tim Page (THE NEW YORKER, > August 20, 2007). >
-- Jim Devine / "In the years since the phrase became a cliché, I have received any number of compliments for my supposed ability to 'think outside the box.' Actually, it has been a struggle for me to perceive just what these 'boxes' were — why they were there, why other people regarded them as important, where their borderlines might be, how to live safely within and without them." -- Tim Page (THE NEW YORKER, August 20, 2007).
