Appreciation: George W. Douglas, 1938-2012

(March 1, 2012) -- When asked to reflect on the work of the late FTC Commissioner George W. Douglas, who died on February 10 at 73, Jim Miller, a former FTC chairman, didn’t hesitate in describing his former colleague as “cerebral.” He said Douglas, an economist, was “a thinker, who looked at issues, thought about them, reflected on them and did research.” In other words, Douglas was no rigid ideologue who could be neatly pigeonholed....

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