Josh Lerner of Harvard University and NBER reviews “Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology” by Jorge Goldstein. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the legal, commercial, and social debates surrounding the patenting of biological materials, whether living single cells, whole plants or animals, or the inert molecules that they produce or from which they are made.”

Journal Article Average Prices under the International Wheat Agreement Get access Joseph Lerner Joseph Lerner Washington, D. C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 67, Issue 2, May 1953, Pages 298–305, https://doi.org/10.2307/1885341 Published: 01 May 1953

Journal Article Income Expansion and Contraction: A Diagrammatic Representation Get access Joseph Lebner Joseph Lebner Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 65, Issue 1, February 1951, Pages 138–141, https://doi.org/10.2307/1879506 Published: 01 February 1951

I. Introduction: constant proportions and fixed "plant" as restrictions compared to the optimum, 361. — II. The possibility that constant proportions will be a greater restriction than fixed "plant, " 362. — III. Three possible locations of constant proportions line, plant line and scale line, 365.

In this paper Ho and Saunders apply a model that has been used to analyze dealer spreads to banking.A potential contribution to a field can arise whenever a well-developed framework of analysis in one problem area is applied to another field. The risk of a mechanical application, however, is that the institutional structure of the two problem areas is so different that no real insights are gained. What are the facts here?

Journal Article Further Notes on Elasticity of Substitution: III. The Question of Symmetry Get access A. P. Lerner A. P. Lerner Leon Fellow of the University of London London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 3, Issue 2, February 1936, Pages 150–151, https://doi.org/10.2307/2967508 Published: 01 February 1936

Journal Article A Note on the Theory of Price Index Numbers Get access A. P. Lerner A. P. Lerner London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1, October 1935, Pages 50–56, https://doi.org/10.2307/2967571 Published: 01 October 1935

Journal Article The Concept of Monopoly and the Measurement of Monopoly Power Get access A. P. Lerner A. P. Lerner London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 1, Issue 3, June 1934, Pages 157–175, https://doi.org/10.2307/2967480 Published: 01 June 1934