================= HES POSTING ================= An IO economist--like Stigler--arguing for a "minimalist government" should lead us to the creation of an oxymoron; is there any field of economics in which the institutional specification (here of corporation law, labor law, property rights in equity and bonds, etc.) is more critical to the nature of the observed behavior? FC ********************************************************************** Prof. Fred V. Carstensen Office: (860) 486-0614 Department of Economics Dept: (860) 486-3022 341 Mansfield Road FAX: (860) 486-4463 University of Connecticut Home: (860) 242-6355 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]