You can see exactly this bias at work in the work of noted legal theorist Richard Epstein.

FORBES: Social Distance and the Patent System

That's the provocative view of Richard Epstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and sometime consultant to the drug industry.

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But even if Employee Free Choice becomes law, it is unlikely on its own to indicate any long-term reversal in the decline of unionism, reckons Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who opposes the bill.

ECONOMIST: Unions