ABSTRACT
Henry Manne was an important academic in law and economics but, more importantly, an extraordinary entrepreneur with respect to the field. After an early career in academics that was highly productive, he shifted to academic administration, chiefly with the idea of promoting law and economics. The economist Allen Wallis had been the Dean of the University of Chicago Business School and a colleague and close friend of Stigler, Director, and others. In 1962, he was appointed President of the University of Rochester. Manne’s Economics Institutes for Law Professors and his comparable programs teaching law to economists had extraordinary success. By 1999, over 1,000 professors had attended these programs. Over the same twenty-year period, Manne also organized shorter conferences for legal and economics scholars sponsored by the Liberty Fund. Manne had a style for conferences: they were held at exotic US locations with a small, selected, number of invitees; honoraria for those presenting papers or teaching; and good food.
