Socio-Economics: Challenging Mainstream Economic Models and Policies
49 Akron Law Review 539 (2016)
Akron Research Paper No. 18-03
15 Pages Posted: 22 Feb 2018
Date Written: February 14, 2018
Abstract
As one of the organizers of the University of Akron School of Law Symposium on Law and Socio-Economics, I have been given the opportunity to provide some concluding remarks to round out this excellent collection of papers. Accordingly, in the following pages I have broken the Symposium articles into three groups for review: (1) those that can be read as challenging mainstream economic models, (2) those that can be read as challenging mainstream policy conclusions, and (3) those that provide a good example of both. I do not claim to have applied these demarcations perfectly. More likely, each of the papers can be read to have something important to say about both economic modeling and policy. Nonetheless, I hope reviewing the Symposium articles in this way may be interesting and/or helpful to at least some readers.
Keywords: economics, economic models, economic policy
JEL Classification: K00
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