Richard A. Epstein
@RichardAEpstein
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Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School
New York, Chicago, Palo Alto
Joined November 2012
Gubernatorial strangleholds (based on faulty models) pose massive economic risk-in part by inflating CV deaths in the face of a declining threat. All decisions should be made at the margin-but here, the policies are fixed even as the needle has moved. https://t.co/LGXguQ8G6h
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Authoritarian decision-making has catastrophic consequences for the economy.
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In 1991, Senator Joe Biden held my Takings in front of Clarence Thomas as an example of poor, even dangerous scholarship. Nearly 30 years later a defense of Takings through the prism of one case, Penn Central v. NYC https://t.co/F5BYDW3AZT
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His progressive values blind him to the importance of property rights.
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W/ Anthony Kreis re fed v. state control over cover 19, + civil liberties issues. Sure to get bigger with time. https://t.co/aB3RFZlH9D
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First appearing in a 1949 dissent authored by Justice Robert H. Jackson, the phrase “the Constitutio...
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Vermeule's illusion of common good constitutionalism-consistent with neither text nor theory https://t.co/pfMYVaNiIw
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The case against "common-good constitutionalism."
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latest column on CV- use of statistical lives & C/B analysis. Not enough real resources https://t.co/ttYko84rr2
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The purported health gains from shutting down the economy do not begin to justify these radical initiatives.
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Fed Soc NEPA panel--updating after 50 yrs. W/ B. Fewell; R. Glicksman; M. Loyola; T. Male. Responses to CEQ January Report. Epstein, Loyola pro; Glicksman, Male anti. https://t.co/WCJ0I3SGxX
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On January 10, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed revisions to its regu...
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Adam White and I disagree, and how. Will the curve bend back and when. Sooner than later say I, and the some movement to roll back the blockade is necessary. Firm and individual responses will work better. https://t.co/eus92dCtbS
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Assessing the policy responses to COVID-19.
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Interview with Dan Proft re CV--once again the dire restrictions on personal and business liberty not justified by the extrapolations from the data—will backfire economically https://t.co/iyyYc386Iq
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Reason interview w/ Nick Gillespie re corona-- skeptical take as earlier, and newer shutdowns are wild over response. Even worse than several days ago. https://t.co/GgCjTEBAUP
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My reason interview-still think quarantines an abuse, the risks overstated, and effectiveness of simple precautions, based on individualized risks under appreciated. https://t.co/pBvLJ9yHNm
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Dissenting (lonely?) view on coronavirus. Numbers do not support a pandemic verdict. Large expansion of US or world cases unlikely. Fear overreaction will cause countless dislocations of its own. Criticisms always welcome https://t.co/ou1PvF7rpY
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More caution about public response to coronavirus-don't use CV as a reason to expand compensation systems or social safety nets. Key is to stop spread of CV. Loss prevention dominates loss spreading. https://t.co/FQDFNRdvft
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No grand economic solution is able to handle the obvious slowdown in current operations.
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Law Talk w/ Yoo & Senik -not just coronavirus but also, Catholic charities, Trump's libel suits; illegal immigration; and baseball's worst predictions.
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On coronavirus, and it may already be somewhat out of date, given all the closings announced today. In general, question but defer to health authorities; but do not use the virus as an excuse to introduce permanent reforms that don't make sense https://t.co/NMZriy8Rpv
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Short-term crises are bad times to advance discredited progressive reforms.
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W/ Yoo and Senik—on just about everything. The residue from impeachment; faithless electors in the Sup Ct. Sanctuary cities and counties, from left and right; the ripple effects of the Astro scandal. https://t.co/0E5cXCZTCP
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Attacks on rent control; in general unconstitutional as taking of landlord property; specifically unconstitutional with 2019 stabilization law on weaker theory b/c no guaranteed rate of return on public utility model https://t.co/eEMmsKOCTW
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New York’s new rent stabilization law shows the peril of heavy-handed government regulation
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In defense of union decline--monopoly institutions, never welcome, impose higher costs in open, fluid and innovative markets https://t.co/I7VVJMnco1
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Turning the clock back will cripple America's workers, not help them.
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With Bill Whalen, Area 45-- do cheaters prosper in sports, politics, trade, and, well, life? https://t.co/vLfZFyLPws
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The balance of virtue and rules flaunting in modern society.
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Corporate "woeness" BlackRock Microsoft run ahead of data on global warming. Never quantify costs or benefits of their new programs, which miss obvious targets like bad forest management https://t.co/rudjRYhZVe
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BlackRock and Microsoft offer mistaken prescriptions on global warming.
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Deficits and inflation—mysterious noncorrelation, but a bipartisan spending fest creates financial insecurity and could crowd out private investment https://t.co/bp3NB7RE5N
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The growth of national debt seems to be largely independent of which party is in power, even as the two parties have some difference in priorities.
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