From: Ian Ayres [Ian.Ayres@yale.edu]

Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:16 PM

To: ian.ayres@yale.edu

Subject: more Ayres spam

Back to school special edition (mostly from the popular press):

This essay fulfilled one of my childhood dreams because it appeared (at least on-line) in the New York Times Sports section: The Knicks Boldly Go Where Companies Have Not, New York Times (July 2, 2006) (with John J. Donohue III).

This Forbes column with Barry Nalebuff suggests a way that lottery tickets could be reconfigured to help people save for retirement: The Ticket to Savings Forbes 176 (May 22, 2006).

This Forbes column with Barry Nalebuff has two ideas to improve the environment and it comes with a puzzle:

Imagine that Sybil owns a Toyota Prius and a Cadillac Escalade and that she drives each 10,000 miles a year. Suppose she could somehow increase the energy efficiency of her Prius from 50 to 60mpg or increase the fuel efficiency of her Escalade from 15 to 16.5mpg. Which should she choose?

Easy Savings Forbes146 (Sept. 4, 2006).

This Marketplace commentary suggests that Jim Fishkin’s Deliberation Day might usefully be applied to board rooms: How to Strengthen Shareholder Democracy, Marketplace (July 6, 2006) (Real Audio). You can learn more about this from the horse’s mouth at http://cdd.stanford.edu/ or at Citizen Sovereignty http://www.citsov.org/

Here’s a piece just published about the press critiquing (among other things) its failure to compensate. First Amendment Bargains, 18 Yale J. L. & Humanities 178 (2006).

Here’s an attempt to explain what practitioners need to know about insincere promises. Promissory Fraud, 78 New York State Bar Association Journal 26 (May 2006) (with Gregory Klass).

This short op-ed relates patriot dollars to empowering the poor. Give NY’s Poor What They Need Most: A Voice, New York Daily News (August 14, 2006) (with Bruce Ackerman).

Finally, for those who’ve made it this far, I’m happy to announce that “Insincere Promises” has won the 2006 Scribes Book Award "for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year."

Hope your summer was restful and productive.

Ian Ayres

William K. Townsend Professor

Yale Law School

PO Box 208215

New Haven, CT 06520

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