Max R. P. Grossmann

GDP, like age, is just a number. GDP in Florida is up 85% in 10 years. Is anyone 85% better off? Of course not. As Governor, I will never worship GDP, and instead focus on what matters: can you and your family afford life.

I love this from Jesus, and am lucky to get to be on the Board at JEL. I also have long thought that JEL and JEP play a unique role in the profession - the diffusion of technical knowledge is just as important as expanding the frontier, yet much less incentivized. Write publicly!

An attorney writes to me about the mostly AI-written law review article he had accepted this spring, now forthcoming in the flagship law review of a Top 50 law school. A draft of the article is now up on SSRN. According to the attorney: " Last month I used Claude to assist in drafting a new article . . . . I drafted this article in about 15 hours. In 2022 I published an article of similar length that took around 150 hours." The attorney adds: "I used Claude the way I’d use a junior associate—as a first drafter, sounding board, and research assistant. Most of the article, including the entirety of the title, abstract, and intro, is mine from the keyboard up. And anything Claude contributed that made it to the final version is there because I reviewed it, agreed with it, and chose to sign my name to it. This is no different than how I’d review an associate’s draft and then take responsibility for the finished product." The attorney adds: "That first draft was by no means file ready, but it was better than what I would’ve received from the vast majority of BigLaw associates. I was blown away, and have since started my own appellate and litigation practice in an effort to replicate these productivity gains for client work." Your thoughts? I know the attorney's name, and the journal, and I have checked out the article, but I figured that, at least for now, I would hold that back.

Milton Friedman discusses five enduring myths: 1) The Robber Baron myth 2) The Great Depression myth 3) The Big Government myth 4) The Free Lunch myth 5) The Robin Hood myth