Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2011
ISSN
0006-8047
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
More than twenty years ago, I was commissioned to write an article – my very first scholarly article – on “the ethics of insider trading” (this was hot on the heels of the Ivan Boesky insider-trading scandal of the mid-1980s).1 After tracing philosophical debates concerning the morality of exchanges based on unequal information from Cicero and Aquinas through Henry Manne and Frank Easterbrook,2 I had to decide what I could responsibly say in a scholarly work as a matter of substantive moral theory about the practice of insider trading – and derivatively what it would be appropriate to say normatively in future scholarly work about any other subject.
Recommended Citation
Gary S. Lawson,
Truth, Justice, and the Libertarian Way(s)
,
in
91
Boston University Law Review
1347
(2011).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/711
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