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Rubin, Paul Harold was born on August 9, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Freda (Goldhagen) Rubin.
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"In this lively and insightful book, Paul Rubin shows just how much light can be shed on the institutions of modern life by reference to our long species' history as hunter-gatherers. This is highly recommended reading."-Herbert Gintis, author of Game Theory Evolving "Full of insights and interesting connections among biology, public policy, and economics. It keeps the reader's interest and is well paced. Simply great-I enjoyed every minute of it."-Michael T. McGuire, coauthor of Darwinian Psychiatry "A lucid, responsible, thought-provoking, constructive inquiry into the biological foundations of economic behavior."-Richard Posner, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit "This is a great book, and more than worthy of serious attention. . . . An interesting and imaginative book. . . . Wonderfully engaging."-Jason Potts, University of Queensland Darwinian Politics is the first book to examine political behavior from a modern evolutionary perspective. Paul H. Rubin demonstrates why certain political-moral philosophies succeed or fail in modern Western culture. He begins by showing relationships between biology and natural selection and the history of political philosophy and explains why desirable policies must treat each person as an individual. He considers the notion of group identity and conflict, observing a human propensity to form in-groups, a behavior that does not necessitate but often leads to deviancies such as racism. In discussing altruism, Rubin shows that people are willing to aid the poor if they are convinced that the recipients are not shirkers or freeloaders. This explains why recent welfare reforms are widely viewed as successful. Rubin illustrates evolutionary premises for religious belief and for desires to regulate the behavior of others, and how in today's world such regulation may not serve any useful purpose. Ultimately, the author argues that humans naturally seek political freedom, and modern Western society provides more freedom than any previous one. Paul H. Rubin is a professor of economics and law at Emory University. He is the author of Managing Business Transactions: Controlling the Costs of Coordinating, Communicating, and Decision Making and Privacy and the Commercial Use of Personal Information.
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Hon. Orrin G. Hatch United States Senate Electronic commerce will be pivotal to the United States economy in the 21 SI Century. With the advent ofelectronic commerce, some consumers have become concerned about the disclosure, transfer, and sale of information which businesses have collected about them. These concerns purportedly are slowing the rate ofexpansion ofelectronic commerce, thereby putting at risk the future growth of the New Economy. To reduce this risk, a variety of schemes have been proposed under which the government would regulate online privacy. Congress currently is in the midst ofa vigorous debate as to whether the government should regulate on-line privacy standards, and, ifso, what form such regulation should take. This succinct yet powerful book by Paul Rubin and Thomas Lenard goes to the heart of these issues. It explains that there is no evidence of actual consumer harm or market failure that could justify burdensome government regulation of online privacy. It describes the tremendous advantages consumers currently receive from the free flow of information collected on line, advantages which could be eliminated if the government unnecessarily regulates and stops this flow of information. It argues that the free market provides businesses with compelling incentives to adopt their own measures - such as seal programs and novel technologies - to assuage consumer privacy concerns. This book presents compelling evidence to support these and many other points central to the continuing debate in the halls of Congress and elsewhere concerningonline privacy.
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Rubin, Paul Harold was born on August 9, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Joseph and Freda (Goldhagen) Rubin.
Bachelor of Arts University Cincinnati, 1963. Master of Arts, Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy Purdue University, Indiana, 1964, 1968, 1970.
Professor economics University Georgia, Athens, 1968-1982. Senior staff economist President Council Economic Advisers, Washington, 1981-1982. Professor economics Baruch College and the Graduate Center, New York City, 1982-1983.
Head, consumer protection Bureau Economics, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, 1983-1985. Chief economist Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1985-1987. Vice president Glassman-Oliver Economic Consultant, Inc., Washington, 1987-1991.
Professor economics Emory University, Atlanta, since 1991, professor economics and law, since 1999, Candler Dobbs professor economics and law, since 2001. Adjunct professor George Washington University Law Center, Washington, 1985-1989.
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Author: (book) Congressmen, Constituents and Contributors, 1982, Business Firms and the Common Law, 1983, Mng, Business Transactions, 1990, Tort Reform by Contract, 1993, Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, 2002, Privacy and Commercial Use of Personal Information (foreword by Senator Orin Hatch, with Thomas Lenard), 2001. Editor-in-chief: Managerial and Decision Economics. Contributor articles profl.jours.
My initial research interests were in the theory of the firm. This led to an interest in industrial organisation. However, the questions which I found most interesting in this area dealt with issues of government intervention and regulation: more specifically, I became interested in the determinants of government intervention in markets.
This has in turn led to my two main research interests: public choice and law and economics.
In the area of public choice, my major research has been empirical studies of congressional voting, co-authored with James Kau. It was our belief that the voting behaviour of Congress provided a set of data which could be used to test various theories of legislation. In particular, we wanted to determine the extent to which Stigler’s theory (that legislation could be explained as a result of economic self-interest) was valid.
Our results, published in several articles and summarised in Congressmen, Constituents, and Contributors, indicate that, while economic interest is important, ideological factors are also significant in explaining legislation.
In the area of law and economics, I developed the theory that legislation evolves towards efficiency if the parties to disputes are chosen ‘correctly’. In particular, this means that if business firms are litigants, efficiency will tend to result. If government agencies are litigants, efficiency is less likely.
This research was published in several papers and in Business Firms and the Common Law. Finally, I have read in the area of sociobiology and have published some papers attempting to provide evolutionary arguments for the forms of human tastes. I have applied these arguments to tastes for risk and ethical beliefs.
Member American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association (vice president 1994-1996), American Law and Economics Association, Public Choice Society Fellow.
Married Marcia Ann Claybon, June 15, 1964 (deceased February 1973). Children: Joseph Saul, Rachel Beth. Married Mariam Hope Moss, July 26, 1985.