Archive for Andrew P. Morriss
Andrew Morriss is H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The Rise and Fall of Curaçao’s Offshore Financial Sector
A longer examination, with footnotes, of Curaçao’s rise and fall, “Change, Dependency, and Regime Plasticity in Offshore Financial Intermediation: The Saga of the Netherlands Antilles,” by Craig M. Boise and Andrew P. Morriss, is forthcoming in the Texas International Law Journal and is available on SSRN.
In the late 1970s virtually every major U.S. corporation had [...]
Freedom Works: The Case of Hong Kong
Andrew Morriss is H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a regular visitor to Hong Kong. His International Business Transactions students will visit the city in January 2009 as part of a class field trip.
Hong Kong has an impressive reputation for economic freedom [...]
Putting a Bureaucrat in Your Tank: Gasoline Markets and Regulation
If you run a barrel of crude oil through a still, the technique used by the earliest refineries and still a stage in modern refining, it separates into various fractions, including kerosene, gasoline, diesel, fuel oils, waxes, and asphalt. Without further processing, about 10 percent will be “straight run” gasoline. In the 1870s this 10 [...]
1Oct2007 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | ContinuedMiners, Vigilantes, and Cattlemen: Property Rights on the Western Frontier
Andrew Morriss (morriss@law.uiuc.edu) is the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business at the University of Illinois and senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. This is the first of three articles on property in America.
As Americans moved west over the course of the nineteenth century, the property-rights [...]
The Economics of Property Rights
Andrew Morriss is the inaugural H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business at the University of Illinois and a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. This is the second of three articles on property in America.
Property rights play a critical role in a wide range of economic [...]
Europe Meets America: Property Rights in the New World
Andrew Morriss is the H. Ross and Helen Workman Professor of Law and Professor of Business at the University of Illinois and senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. This is the first of three articles on property in America.
When Europeans arrived in the Americas and began to claim the rich lands they [...]
Why Classical Liberals Care about the Rule of Law (And Hardly Anyone Else Does)
In 1776 John Adams declared that America was “a
nation of laws, not men.” Politicians of all persuasions
have used Adams’s phrase ever since to claim
the moral high ground. Such rare agreement among the
political classes, even if only rhetorical, is an indication
of the power of the idea of the rule of law.
Borders and Liberty
Andrew Morriss is Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and senior associate at PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana.
Borders play a critical role in our lives. Some of the borders that matter to us are ones we establish ourselves: this is my [...]
Selling History with Dolls
Contributing Editor Andrew Morriss is Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and shares his home with several American Girl dolls.
Many people think that markets can’t provide culture. History, for example, has to be supported through government-funded schools, endowments, and grants. In this view, markets [...]
Fair Is Fair
Contributing editor Andrew Morriss is the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University and a senior associate at PERC—The Center for Free Market Environmentalism.
Several years ago, just after Congress had finally killed the federal mohair subsidy, I interviewed a lobbyist for the Texas Sheep and [...]
Book Review ~ A Phone of Our Own: The Deaf Insurrection Against Ma Bell by Harry G. Lang
Gallaudet University Press · 2000 · 242 pages · $29.95
Reviewed by Andrew P. Morriss
In A Phone of Our Own, Professor Harry Lang (National Technical Institute for the Deaf) provides an accessible, thoroughly researched history of the development of the TTY (teletype) system used by the hearing-impaired to communicate over telephone lines. Relying [...]
Adventures in Zoning
Contributing editor Andrew Morriss is the Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University and a senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman, Montana.
I live on a quiet dead-end street in a small suburb of Cleveland. A local developer’s plans for a little vacant [...]
Why Classical Liberals Should Love Harry Potter
Contributing editor Andrew Morriss is Galen J. Roush Professor of Business Law and Regulation at Case Western Reserve University and a senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center, Bozeman, Montana.
As anyone with children can tell you, the Harry Potter books by British author J. K. Rowling have taken the world by storm. [...]
Book Review ~ Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig
Basic Books • 1999 • 297 pages • $30.00
Lawrence Lessig has written an important but deeply flawed book on the future of the Internet. The book is important because of who Lessig is (Harvard law professor, celebrated member of the “digiterati,” and adviser to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson) and because of the [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
