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Alec Stapp is a research fellow at the International Center for Law and Economics.ICLE President & Founder Geoffrey Manne’s father, Henry Manne (1928-2015), was one of the founders of Law & Economics, an honor he shares with Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase and US Court of Appeals judges Richard Posner and Guido Calabresi. Henry was Dean of the George Mason University School of Law and founder (in 1973) of the first academic center devoted to the development of Law & Economics.<a href="https://laweconcenter.org/about/">https://laweconcenter.org/about/</a>Niskanen Centerhttps://www.niskanencenter.org › big-business-rise-fas...Mar 11, 2019 — Thomas Childers, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, calls the idea that Hitler was bankrolled by big corporate donors a “ ...</div><div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2019/06/27/conservative_philanthropy_in_higher_education.pdf">https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/2019/06/27/conservative_philanthropy_in_higher_education.pdf</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...The importance of the Walgreen Foundation’s support raises a counterfactual: would these scholars have enjoyed prominent careers without that financial assistance? Like all counterfactuals, the conclusion must be speculative. Certainly, many of the scholars at the University of Chicago who received funding from the Walgreen Foundation (such as Posner and Becker) may well have had brilliant academic careers even if the Walgreen Foundation and the Graduate School of Business had never existed. However, this misses the point: the success of George Stigler’s Walgreen-funded project created a scholarly network and a financial infrastructure with which to promote their pro–free market ideas. Without Walgreen’s support, that may well have been more difficult. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>CASE STUDY II: HENRY MANNE AND LAW AND ECONOMICS </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The success of Stigler’s project can be understood within the context of a broader conservative philanthropic movement that built upon past victories. Before Stigler constructed an antistatist economics and business program at the University of Chicago, Keynesians (who supported muscular state interventions in the economy) tended to dominate economic thought in the United States. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>The most prominent economists and economics programs in America (e.g., Paul Samuelson, who served as an economic advisor to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and built MIT’s economics department into a powerhouse) predominantly belonged to the Keynesian tradition.11 Stigler’s anti-statist economics program not only allowed for the transformation of economics programs throughout American higher education, but provided academic support for the conservative transformation of the law. </div><div>
</div><div>Steven Teles’s (2008) book on the development of the conservative legal establishment, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law, strongly emphasizes the Chicago school’s importance in the creation of the field of “law and economics” in the 1970s. “Law and economics” is, essentially, the application of economic analysis—specifically economic analysis rooted in the Austrian school’s free market philosophy—to public policy and legal questions.12 Not every early attempt to institutionalize conservative legal and economics programs was as successful as Stigler’s. Henry Manne, whom Teles calls one the great organizational entrepreneurs of law and economics, attempted to build a dedicated conservative law program at the University of Rochester in the late 1960s by cultivating conservative alumni and foundation support.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CASE III: THE OLIN FOUNDATION AND THE BEACHHEAD THEORY </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although a dense network of conservative philanthropic foundations—including the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Scaife Foundations, and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation—became prominent funders of right-wing causes in the 1970s and early 1980s, the John M. Olin Foundation has received the most scholarly attention for the following three reasons: (1) it was one of the first conservative foundations to focus on giving in higher education to achieve its political aims, (2) its peer institutions considered it an innovative leader in right-wing philanthropic giving, and (3) it has actively supported studies that highlight its history and mission. Such studies include John J. Miller’s official history of the foundation, A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America, and Steven Teles’s more neutral The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement, both of which received support from Olin Foundation grants. 17 Scholars and philanthropic officials have centered these points (particularly its reputation for innovation) in criticisms of the Olin Foundation’s politics (Sally Covington’s Moving a Public Policy Agenda, for example, devotes one of its major case studies to the foundation because of its reputation for innovation and impact).</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Given the success of the Olin Foundation’s projects and of its broader vision of promarket social change rooted in college and university campuses, this reputation is well deserved.18 John M. Olin, whose Winchester Repeating Arms Company made a fortune during World War II manufacturing arms and ammunition for the US Army, was not the first right-wing billionaire to establish a dedicated philanthropic foundation in their name (Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and even the comparatively less wealthy Charles Walgreen preceded him). But Olin was concerned that “mission creep” had set in at the major establishment philanthropic organizations, leading them to betray their founders’ promarket ideals. He was determined to avoid the same fate, and to ensure his money was tied to meaningful institution-building and political change. The Olin Foundation was therefore designed to have a limited lifespan: Olin died in 1982, and the foundation folded in 2005 after having disbursed nearly $300 million to conservative causes.19</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CASE IV: THE KOCHS AND GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY </div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div><div>=</div><div>Geoffrey A. Manne is the founder and Executive Director of the <a>International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE)</a>, based in Portland, Oregon. In 2015 he was also appointed to the FCC's <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/cac-meeting-announcement-0" mce_href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/cac-meeting-announcement-0" style="text-decoration: none;">Consumer Advisory Commission</a>, where he co-chairs the Broadband Working Group. Manne is an expert in the economic analysis of law, drawing on two degrees from the University of Chicago. He specializes in antitrust, telecommunications, consumer protection, intellectual property, and technology policy, and has been described by Professor Herbert Hovenkamp (the "<a href="http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/news/?p=2057" mce_href="http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/news/?p=2057" style="text-decoration: none;">dean of American Antitrust Law</a>") as a “top scholar of competition policy and intellectual property." His <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" style="text-decoration: none;">publications</a> have appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Supreme Court Economic Review, and the Columbia Business Law Review. With former FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright, Manne is the editor of a volume from Cambridge University Press entitled<a href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5761558/?site_locale=en_GB" mce_href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5761558/?site_locale=en_GB" style="text-decoration: none;">Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Law Under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation</a>. Manne has also testified on several occasions before <a href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ftc-100-views-academic-experts" mce_href="http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearing/ftc-100-views-academic-experts" style="text-decoration: none;">Congress</a> and at the <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/events/open-internet-roundtable-policy-approaches" mce_href="https://www.fcc.gov/events/open-internet-roundtable-policy-approaches" style="text-decoration: none;">FCC</a>, and he regularly files written comments or amicus briefs on key antitrust, IP, and telecommunications issues.Prior to founding ICLE, Manne was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School where he taught law & economics, corporations, wills & trusts, and international economic regulation. From 2006-2009, he took a leave from teaching to develop Microsoft’s legal and economics academic outreach program. Manne has also served as a lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced antitrust law and appellate litigation at Latham & Watkins, clerked for Hon. Morris S. Arnold on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a research assistant for Judge Richard Posner. He was also once (very briefly) employed by the FTC.He blogs at <a href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com/" mce_href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">Truth on the Market</a> (of which he is also the co-founder), is a contributor at <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fcc-better-call-saul/" mce_href="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fcc-better-call-saul/" style="text-decoration: none;">WIRED.com</a>, and tweets at <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/geoffmanne" mce_href="http://twitter.com/#!/geoffmanne" style="text-decoration: none;">@geoffmanne</a> and<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/laweconcenter" mce_href="http://twitter.com/#!/laweconcenter" style="text-decoration: none;">@LawEconCenter</a>.SSRN: <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" style="text-decoration: none;">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541</a>Blog: <a href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com/" mce_href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com" style="text-decoration: none;">www.truthonthemarket.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?&screen_name=geoffmanne" mce_href="https://twitter.com/intent/follow?&screen_name=geoffmanne" style="text-decoration: none;">Follow on Twitter</a></div><div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</h2><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ORIGIN?</h2><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The big business reaction to Lewis Powell’s judicial and legal strategy was swift. Within a few years, nearly a dozen corporate-funded legal foundations were created. ThePacific Legal Foundation (PLF) was formed in California in 1973 to counter public-interest law firms and represent the interests of business and private property holders against environmental regulations. PLF’s prospectus quoted the Powell memo at length. (Kim Phillips-Fein, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/judicial/#invisiblehands" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal;">Invisible Hands</a>,” p. 162).When asked for his opinion of the “most critical” area of public interest law, PLF’s then-executive legal director replied, “environmental law,” citing the firm’s support for the use of DDT, the construction of a dam and reservoir project, the use of herbicides in national forests and the use of public grazing lands without environmental impact review. The early cases established a clear pattern for PLF and its followers at the Mountain States Legal Foundation and other regionally named corporate defenders. Environmental cases would be a priority and the foundations’ positions in such cases would invariably be those of their business benefactors, including Monsanto, Weyerhaeuser, Gulf Oil, ARCO, Ford and other companies (Houck, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/judicial/#houck" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal;">With Charity for All</a>," pp. 1461-1462). The work of these groups also supported the Wise Use movement; radical property rights activists and corporate front groups that attacked environmental laws and regulations on behalf of landowners, ranchers and the oil industry (Helvarg, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/judicial/#helvarg" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal;">The War Against the Greens</a>). The conservative backlash against alleged liberal influence over the law went well beyond the corporate agenda that grew directly out of Powell’s analysis, but there were also tensions between the two. Corporate legal campaigns were primarily self-interested, practical and designed to get both immediate and longer-term results. The conservative legal movement that got its start in the 1970s was more ideologically driven; its greatest successes would take decades, and sometimes came about through indirect means (Teles, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/judicial/#teles" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal;">The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement</a>).At the juncture between these two was the “law and economics” school, with leading proponents such as Richard Posner at the University of Chicago and George Mason University’s Henry Manne. Manne organized seminars for federal judges through his Law and Economics Center, with support from the Olin Foundation, which also backed some of the leading “second generation” conservative public policy law firms, like the Center for Individual Rights. The foundation’s chairman, John M Olin, was inspired by Powell’s memo to write to William Baroody at the American Enterprise Institute: “The Powell Memorandum gives a reason for a well organized effort to re-establish the validity and importance of the American free enterprise system.” (“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/judicial/#invisiblehands" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal;">Invisible Hands</a>,” Kim Phillips-Fein)For its part, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce also eventually followed Powell’s advice by creating two legal groups that have carried out a multi-decade legal strategy -- the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.chamberlitigation.com/" class="zoom" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; background: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20141114235917/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat;">National Chamber Litigation Center</a> (NCLC) and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.instituteforlegalreform.org/" class="zoom" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; background: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20141114235917/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat;">Institute for Legal Reform</a> (ILR). NCLC served as the Chamber’s law firm, using aggressive and strategic litigation to challenge regulations and laws. Entering 134 new cases of significance to the business community in 2009, for example, the NCLC helped to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141114114235/http://www.uschamber.com/about/management/thomas-j-donohue" class="zoom" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; background: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20141114235917/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/Templates/Planet3/Styles/images/bg-zoom.gif) 100% 2px no-repeat;">secure 52 victories</a>.  GP on powell memeo</div> =</div><div>=robt r
When Comcast, for example, finances a nonprofit like the International Center for Law and Economics, the Center <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html?r=0" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 32px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">supports</a> Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner. http://laweconcenter.org/about.html<h3 style="margin: 16px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.8px;">Geoffrey A. Manne, Executive Director (<a href="mailto: " style="font-weight: normal;"> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " mce_href="mailto:

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" mce_style="color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" style="color: rgb(200, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.3em;"> </a><a href="mailto:gmanne@laweconcenter.org" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">gmanne@laweconcenter.org</a> )</h3>Geoffrey A. Manne is the founder and Executive Director of the<a href="http://www.laweconcenter.org/" mce_href="/" style="text-decoration: none;"> International Center for Law and Economics (ICLE)</a>, based in Portland, Oregon. He is also a<a href="http://techfreedom.org/people/geoffrey-manne" mce_href="http://techfreedom.org/people/geoffrey-manne" style="text-decoration: none;"> Senior Fellow</a> at<a href="http://techfreedom.org/" mce_href="http://techfreedom.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"> TechFreedom</a>. Prior to founding ICLE, Professor Manne was a law professor at<a href="http://www.lclark.edu/law/" mce_href="http://www.lclark.edu/law/" mce_style="line-height: 15.8079996109009px;" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 15.808px;"> Lewis & Clark Law School</a>, specializing in antitrust law and economics, intellectual property law, corporate governance, and international economic regulation, all topics on which he has written. From 2006-2009, he took a leave from teaching to direct Microsoft’s legal and economics academic outreach program. His<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" style="text-decoration: none;"> publications</a> have appeared in journals including the<a href="http://jcle.oxfordjournals.org/" mce_href="http://jcle.oxfordjournals.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Journal of Competition Law and Economics</a>, the<a href="http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/" mce_href="http://www.harvard-jlpp.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy</a>, the<a href="http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/lawreview/" mce_href="http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/lawreview/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Wisconsin Law Review</a>, the<a href="http://www.alabamalawreview.org/" mce_href="http://www.alabamalawreview.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Alabama Law Review</a>, and the<a href="http://www.arizonalawreview.org/" mce_href="http://www.arizonalawreview.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Arizona Law Review</a>. He is a noted antitrust, telecommunications and technology policy expert (described by the “<a href="http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/news/?p=2057" mce_href="http://blogs.law.uiowa.edu/news/?p=2057" style="text-decoration: none;">dean of American Antitrust Law</a>,”<a href="http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/herbert-hovenkamp.php" mce_href="http://www.law.uiowa.edu/faculty/herbert-hovenkamp.php" style="text-decoration: none;"> Herbert Hovenkamp</a>, as a “top scholar of competition policy and intellectual property”). He is an expert in the economic analysis of law, drawing on degrees from the<a href="http://www.uchicago.edu/" mce_href="http://www.uchicago.edu/" style="text-decoration: none;"> University of Chicago</a> as well as work for<a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/posner-r" mce_href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/posner-r" style="text-decoration: none;"> Judge Richard Posner</a>, private practice, and brief service at the<a href="http://www.ftc.gov/" mce_href="http://www.ftc.gov/" style="text-decoration: none;"> FTC</a>. Professor Manne has practiced antitrust law at<a href="http://www.lw.com/" mce_href="http://www.lw.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Latham & Watkins</a>, has served as a<a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/bigelow/apply" mce_href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/bigelow/apply" style="text-decoration: none;"> Bigelow Fellow</a> at the<a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/" mce_href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/" style="text-decoration: none;"> University of Chicago Law School</a> and an<a href="http://www.fed-soc.org/aboutus/id.40/default.asp" mce_href="http://www.fed-soc.org/aboutus/id.40/default.asp" style="text-decoration: none;"> Olin Fellow</a> at the<a href="http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/index.htm" mce_href="http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/index.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">University of Virginia School of Law</a>, and clerked for<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_S.Arnold" mce_href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_S.Arnold" style="text-decoration: none;"> Judge Morris S. Arnold</a> on the<a href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/" mce_href="http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/" style="text-decoration: none;"> 8th Circuit Court of Appeals</a>. Professor Manne is a co-founder of the<a href="http://innovationforum.gmu.edu/" mce_href="http://innovationforum.gmu.edu/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Microsoft / George Mason Annual Conference on the Law and Economics of Innovation</a> (with<a href="http://mason.gmu.edu/_jwrightg/" mce_href="http://mason.gmu.edu/_jwrightg/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Joshua Wright</a>) and, also with Joshua Wright, is the editor of a volume from<a href="http://www.cambridge.org/" mce_href="http://www.cambridge.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Cambridge University Press</a> entitled <a href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5761558/?site_locale=en_GB" mce_href="http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item5761558/?site_locale=en_GB" style="text-decoration: none;">Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Law Under Uncertainty: Regulating Innovation</a>.  He blogs at<a href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com/" mce_href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"> Truth on the Market</a> (of which he is also the co-founder) and tweets at<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/laweconcenter" mce_href="http://twitter.com/#!/laweconcenter" style="text-decoration: none;"> @LawEconCenter</a> and<a href="http://twitter.com/#!/geoffmanne" mce_href="http://twitter.com/#!/geoffmanne" style="text-decoration: none;"> @GeoffManne</a>.SSRN: <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541" target="blank" mce_style="font-family: Tahoma; line-height: 1.3em;" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.3em;">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=175541</a>Blog: <a href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com/" mce_href="http://www.truthonthemarket.com" target="blank" mce_style="color: #1b57b1; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;" style="text-decoration: none;">www.truthonthemarket.com</a><h3 style="margin: 16px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.8px;"><hr /></h3><h3 style="margin: 16px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19.8px;">
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Board of Advisors<ul style="line-height: 19.8px;"><li>Harold Demsetz, Arthur Andersen UCLA Alumni Emeritus Professor of Business Economics, UCLA Department of Economics and one of the founders of new institutional economics</li><li>Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and one of the most prominent scholars of law and economics on the bench</li><li>Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School; Director, John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, University of Chicago Law School and one of the founders of law and economics.</li><li>Benjamin Klein, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Economics and one of the founders of new institutional economics</li><li>Henry G. Manne, Dean Emeritus, George Mason University School of Law and one of the founders of law and economics</li><li>Kevin M. Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; MacArthur Fellow and John Bates Clark Medal winner</li><li>George L. Priest, Professor of Law & Economics, Yale Law School</li><li>Roberta Romano, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law, Yale Law School and Director, Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law</li></ul>---ASHINGTON — The letters have come from all around the United States — from the <a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6018305797" style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nutmeg Big Brothers</a> and Big Sisters in Connecticut, the <a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6018315810" style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Houston Area Urban League</a> and even the <a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6018317825" style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dan Marino Foundation</a> in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — some praising the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/comcast_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Comcast Corporation" class="meta-org" style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Comcast Corporation</a>, others urging the federal government to stand aside and approve Comcast’s proposed takeover of <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/time-warner-cable-inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Time Warner Cable Inc" class="meta-org" style="line-height: 23px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Time Warner Cable</a>.The argument has been reinforced by a blitz of academic papers from groups like the International Center for Law and Economics in Portland, Ore. More endorsements have come in from elected officials like Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican of Mississippi, and Fred Crespo, a Democratic state representative in Illinois.
“The merger will not hinder competition but will bring better technology to more consumers,” Mr. Bryant said.
But there is a common element to dozens of these appeals: The senders received money from Comcast in recent years, either as a charitable donation, corporate support or a political contribution, records show.
It is a demonstration of how Comcast, the media conglomerate long known for its aggressive lobbying operation, has enlisted a vast network of allies to press federal regulators to approve the $45 billion transaction, much as it did in 2010 as it sought to acquire NBCUniversal.
But even while Comcast has been busy working to mobilize this support — it had a huge team of 124 federal lobbyists working for it last year — there is growing chatter in Washington that it has been less successful this time in making the public case for its deal.
Several hundred thousand comments have been sent directly or through third parties to the Federal Communications Commission opposing the acquisition, representing a vast majority of those submitted, a review of the files shows, and relatively few members of Congress have signed letters endorsing the transaction, compared with the dozens who signed letters during the NBC review.
“Comcast obviously has a very strong organizational capacity to message,” said Juleanna Glover, a corporate consultant and former lobbyist. “But they have had an extremely hard time coming up with a simple, clean message that advocates of the deal can understand and carry forth.”David L. Cohen, Comcast’s executive vice president who oversees the company’s sprawling lobbying and public relations program, said in an interview on Friday that he was proud of the job the company had done in campaigning for the deal, as well as documenting for regulators why it made sense.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="213" data-total-count="2742" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He did not dispute that many of the voices supporting the deal received donations from Comcast. But he said he was offended by the suggestion that their endorsements had been made in return for the financial help.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="196" data-total-count="2938" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We have never provided financial support to an organization in exchange for support in a transaction,” he said. “Our support is based on the quality of the work they do in the community.”<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="175" data-total-count="3113" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Comcast said recently that it expected the Justice Department and the<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_communications_commission/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Federal Communications Commission." class="meta-org">F.C.C.</a> to finish their review by the middle of this year, at which time the F.C.C. will vote on the deal.<div class="ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html?r=1#story-continues-3" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading the main story</a></div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="299" data-total-count="3412" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-3" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The analysis by outside policy specialists — in academia, law and technology — is one of the most important parts of the extensive public comment record, because they typically have an intimate understanding of the federal regulations and can raise important points the government must consider.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="368" data-total-count="3780" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So while one man from Tallahassee, Fla., simply wrote in to the F.C.C.<a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=60000995267">saying</a>, “This will be a nightmare for consumers!” — obviously in opposition to the deal, Geoffrey A. Manne, executive director of the International Center for Law and Economics, a former law school professor and Microsoft executive, submitted a <a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521817464">six-page detailed analysis</a> of the transaction.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="414" data-total-count="4194" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-4" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px;">“Increased Concentration Does Not Equal Anticompetitive Effect,” Mr. Manne wrote last August, summarizing his submission. He separately wrote pieces in <a title="Wired Magazine piece" href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/actually-the-comcast-time-warner-merger-doesnt-hurt-netflix/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wired magazine,</a> extolling the virtues of the deal, and through a separate advocacy organization he helps run, called<a href="http://techfreedom.org/post/76540083322/comcast-time-warner-merger-wont-reduce" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">TechFreedom</a>, wrote a blog post that appeared the same day that <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/comcast-set-to-acquire-time-warner-cable/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">the deal was announced</a> early last year. Each time, he praised the transaction.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="4413" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But nowhere in these statements does Mr. Manne directly disclose that Comcast is among a small group of donors that finances his nonprofit group, a fact that Mr. Manne confirmed in response to a question late last week.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="184" data-total-count="4597" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We are no value to our donors or ourselves unless we maintain our independence and academic rigor,” he said, before adding that “maybe there is some subconscious thing there.”<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="36" data-total-count="4633" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Manne’s group is hardly alone.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="552" data-total-count="5185" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Letters detailing the benefits of the Comcast deal were submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by staff members from <a title="Comment letter to FCC" href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521816333">Americans for Tax Reform,</a> the <a title="AEI scholar letter" href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521818233">American Enterprise Institute,</a> the <a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6018318209">Institute for Policy Innovation</a>, <a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6018321457">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, <a title="Free State Foundation letter to FCC" href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521794579">the Free State Foundation</a>and <a title="Center for Individual Freedom" href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521817446">the Center for Individual Freedom</a>, as well as by a professor at a<a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7521818381">technology program</a> at the University of Pennsylvania, all of which received support from Comcast or its trade association, <a title="NCTA 2013 disclosure--Comcast is largest member" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1710310-ncta-form-990-for-2013-public-inspection-copy.html">tax documents</a> and other disclosures reviewed by The New York Times show.<aside class="marginalia comments-marginalia selected-comment-marginalia" data-marginalia-type="sprinkled" data-skip-to-para-id="story-continues-5" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); width: 300px; float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 45px 7px; padding-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="visually-hidden" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html?r=1#story-continues-5" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading the main storyA SIMILAR PATTERN IS EVIDENT WITH CHARITIES LIKE THE URBAN LEAGUE AND MORE THAN 80 OTHER COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT SUPPORTED THE MEDIA COMPANY AND THAT ALSO ACCEPTED COLLECTIVELY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DONATIONS FROM THE COMCAST FOUNDATION OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, DOCUMENTS REVIEWED BY THE TIMES SHOW. THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, FOR INSTANCE, RECEIVED $95,000 FROM COMCAST OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.</a></aside><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="334" data-total-count="5944" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-6" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What is clear is that Comcast has tried to make the most of these endorsements. Varsovia Fernandez, the president and chief executive of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, <a href="http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment/view?id=6018311866">wrote a letter</a> to the Federal Communications Commission, as well as a commentary piece in The Philadelphia Daily News, titled, “<a title="Commentary Piece in Philadelphia Daily News" href="http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20141217_Comcast_deserves_a_fair_shake.html">Comcast Deserves a Fair Shake.</a>”<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="543" data-total-count="6487" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <a href="http://corporate.comcast.com/twctransaction/letters-of-support">company maintains a list</a> on its website of organizations that have sent in endorsements, and at times <a href="http://corporate.comcast.com/twctransaction/in-the-news-together">issues news releases</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ComcastPolicy/status/577518464581111808">sends Twitter messages</a> to make sure they are noticed. The list includes dozens of state and local officials, many of whom have received financial support from Comcast. The company has contributed millions to candidates in state elections in the last four years, including $15,000 to Governor Bryant of Mississippi, whose spokeswoman said his positive words about the company had nothing to do with the donations.<div class="ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html?r=1#story-continues-7" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading the main story</a><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html?r=1#story-continues-7" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading the main story</a></div><div id="MiddleRightN" class="ad text-ad middle-right-ad nocontent robots-nocontent" style="float: right; clear: right; margin: 0px 0px 40px 7px; position: relative; min-width: 300px; min-height: 250px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/business/media/comcast-recruits-its-beneficiaries-to-lobby-for-time-warner-deal.html?r=1#story-continues-7" style="position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; margin: -1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clip: rect(0px 0px 0px 0px); overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;">Continue reading the main story</a></div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="377" data-total-count="6864" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-7" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Representative Tony Cárdenas, a California Democrat who is one of the few lawmakers in Washington to take a definitive stand on the deal — he opposes it — said that the relative silence from members of Congress did not surprise him. He said the deal was bad for the country and would result in a single company with too much control over cable television and the Internet.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="183" data-total-count="7047" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Comcast is huge, and they have 130-plus lobbyists running around Washington, who keep reminding you that they are here,” Mr. Cárdenas said. “But this is not a healthy deal.”<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="260" data-total-count="7307" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mr. Cohen rejected any suggestion that the deal did not have widespread support among members of Congress. It is just that fewer are directly affected by it, compared with the NBC deal, and Comcast has not pressed as many to provide letters this time, he said.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="198" data-total-count="7505" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What matters most, he added, is the legal and technical case that has been made to federal and state regulators. He said he was convinced that they would support the transaction based on its merits.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="206" data-total-count="7711" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-8" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We have done an outstanding job of creating an extremely strong record that this transaction should be approved,” he said. “And that is the record the regulators are going to make the decision on.”<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="435" data-total-count="8146" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the interview, he also conceded that the widespread complaints about Comcast’s customer service, which the company is trying to address, have probably contributed to the number of people writing in opposing the deal — even though, he said, that is not relevant to the decision. But he attributed most of it to organized efforts by some of Comcast’s corporate rivals, which are helping to finance coalitions to oppose the deal.<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="331" data-total-count="8477" itemprop="articleBody" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px; line-height: 1.4375rem; width: 532px; max-width: 540px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“The atmospherics around our customer service clearly stir some antipathy among some consumers,” Mr. Cohen said. “And it does provide a basis for opponents of the transaction to gin up three-sentence, nonsubstantive communications to the F.C.C. saying that they don’t like Comcast or they don’t like Time Warner Cable.”--Michael B. Abramowicz, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School 
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Intellectual Property and Antitrust Law | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=32213" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=32213" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene Jones Chair in Law, Alabama School of Law 
Environmental, Energy, & Financial Regulation, Employment Law, Public Choice, Intellectual Property | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=245412" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=245412" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>Kevin Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 
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Antitrust and Insurance Law | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=98988" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=98988" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>Eric Rasmusen, Dan R. and Catherine M. Dalton Professor, Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University 
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Corporate, Securities and Partnership Law | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=047251" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=047251" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>Roberta Romano, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Professor of Law, Yale Law School 
Corporate Law, and Financial Market Regulation | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=84728" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=84728" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>Paul Rubin, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics, Emory University 
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Patent Law | <a href="http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=5557" mce_href="http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=5557" style="text-decoration: none;">Homepage</a>Michael Sykuta, Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia 
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Corporate Strategy and Public Policy | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=209629" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=209629" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>J.W. Verret, Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law 
Corporate Law and Securities Law | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=622890" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=622890" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>Christopher Yoo, Professor of Law and Communication; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition, University of Pennsylvania Law School Internet, Telecommunications Law, and Intellectual Property | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=251605" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=251605" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a>Todd Zywicki, Foundation Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law and Senior Scholar of the Mercatus Center, George Mason University 
Consumer Bankruptcy, Consumer Credit, Consumer Protection, Corporate Bankruptcy, and Antitrust | <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=141468" mce_href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=141468" style="text-decoration: none;">Research on SSRN</a></div><div>
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