morning-glories–
coming down
with a cold and fever
In a working paper released today by the American Antitrust Institute, Emeritus Professor and AAI Senior Fellow F.M. Scherer examines various reasons advanced for the current shortage of flu vaccine in the U.S., and finds that multiple sourcing with excess capacity built-in would yield more benefits than it costs. An Industrial Organization Perspective on the Influenza Vaccine Shortage (F. M. Scherer, AAI Working Paper 04-03, October 29, 2004)
AAI President Albert Foer discusses policy considerations that appear to flow from Dr. Scherer’s paper in a press release accompanying the Vaccine Shortage AAI Working Paper.
Overlawyered recently looked at trial lawyers and the flu vaccine shortage, while Prof. Bainbridge and Kevin Drum focused on regulation as the problem.
- To avoid a lawyerly aftertaste from handing out candy on Sunday, you better check the Halloween Candy Liability Waiver provided by the Center for Consumer Freedom — Prof. Grace spotlights it today at his place.
In other antitrust news, the AntitrustProf Blog started posting on October, 18, 2004. The editor, Shubha Ghosh, is an IP/antitrust specialist at the Buffalo Law School. (via Point of Law).
My old standby Master Issa had no antitrust haiku for this post, but he did know a little
something about illness and cures:
the silkworm doctor
has so many patients…
little girl
first autumn morning–
a fever-curing
kind of sky
all haiku by Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue
