Right-Wing Economics Courses Are Molding the US Judiciary

A new study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics reveals that nearly half of US federal judges attended crash courses in economics at the conservative-leaning Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges between 1976 and 1999 — and it changed how they behaved on the bench. Reviewing more than a million circuit and district court rulings, […]

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