The Regulatory Revolution at the FTC

James Campbell Cooper is the Director of Research and Policy at the Law & Economics Center, and a lecturer in law at George Mason University School of Law. He previously spent several years at the Federal Trade Commission serving as an advisor to Commissioner William E. Kovacic, and Acting Director of the FTC's Office of Policy Planning. Before serving at the FTC, James Cooper worked in the antitrust group at Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC. His research has appeared in publications including the Antitrust Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Regulatory Economics, and the International Review of Law & Economics. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University and a J.D. from George Mason University School of Law, where he was a Levy Fellow and a member of the George Mason Law Review.

Foreword: James C. Cooper ; INTRODUCTION: ; PLANTING THE SEEDS OF THE REGULATORY REVOLUTION ; Chapter 1: James C. Miller ; Causes and Implications of the Regulatory Revolution at the FTC ; Chapter 2: Panel Discussion ; Politics and Policy in 1981 ; PART I: ; JURISDICTION, POLICY, AND PROCEDURE ; Chapter 3: William E. Kovacic ; The Federal Trade Commission and the Assignment of Regulatory Tasks ; Chapter 4: Julie Brill ; The Future of FTC Jurisdiction Over Antitrust and Consumer Protection: A Commentary ; Chapter 5: Joshua D. Wright & Angela Diveley ; Do Expert Agencies Outperform Generalist Judges? Some Preliminary Evidence from the Federal Trade Commission ; Chapter 6: A. Douglas Melamed ; Paradigm Shopping: Section 5, the FTC, and the Courts ; PART II: ; CONSUMER PROTECTION ; Chapter 7: Fred S. McChesney ; Consumer Protection and James Miller at the Federal Trade Commission ; Chapter 8: J. Howard Beales, III, Timothy J. Muris & Robert Pitofsky ; In Defense of the Pfizer Factors ; Chapter 9: Paul H. Rubin & Thomas M. Lenard ; The FTC Then and Now: Privacy ; Chapter 10: Paul A. Pautler ; Regulation and Behavioral Economics in the Post-Miller FTC ; PART III: ; ANTITRUST ; Chapter 11: Richard S. Higgins & Mark Perelman ; Tying to Mitigate the Deadweight Loss of Monopoly Pricing ; Chapter 12: Daniel A. Crane ; Section 5 and the Innovation Curve ; CONCLUSION: ; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE FTC ENFORCEMENT ; Chapter 13: Panel Discussion ; Lessons for Setting Priorities ; Index