Manne
Henry G. Manne
Law-and-economics and corporate-control scholar
Official Source Note
The International Center for Law & Economics describes Henry G. Manne as one of the founders of law and economics, alongside Ronald Coase, Richard Posner, and Guido Calabresi, and notes his role as Dean of George Mason University School of Law and founder of the first academic center devoted to law and economics.
Manne is included because his theory of the market for corporate control made hostile takeovers, tender offers, insider trading, and managerial discipline central subjects for economic analysis of corporate law.
Relevance to the Archive
Manne anchors the archive's M&A coverage because the market for corporate control provides the starting point for later work on takeovers, defensive tactics, shareholder choice, and managerial discipline.
Representative Contributions
- Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control (1965)
- Insider Trading and the Stock Market (1966)
- A Free Market Model of a Large Corporation System (2003)
Works Included Here
1965
Intermediate