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Diary Entry: February 17, 2025

I’m digging more into Coase’s career path after he came to the US. He moved to the University of Chicago in 1964. But this is the crazy part: he served as editor of the Journal of Law and Economics until 1982.

An economics professor was the chief editor of a major law review journal?

I always just thought of him as an author, a scholar. But being the editor... that’s a position of power. He wasn’t just writing in the field of law and economics; he was the gatekeeper. He was the one deciding which articles got published, effectively shaping the entire field.

An economist, running a law journal, at the University of Chicago.

Wow. Just... wow. Interesting.