Archive for Henry Demmert
Merger Policy Fails Hi-Tech Test
Henry Demmert is associate dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. A true story: In the early 1980s I worked as an economist in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. In my first assignment I was paired with one of the division’s experienced lawyers to evaluate a merger between [...]
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
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Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
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Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
