Clifford Winston is an applied microeconomist and senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution.
He studies microeconomic policy and its impact on government performance, specializing in industrial organization, regulation, and transportation.
[1] Prior to joining Brookings, Winston was an associate professor in the Transportation Systems Division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Civil Engineering.
First Thing We Do, Let’s Deregulate All the Lawyers (Brookings Press, 2011) is the latest book from Clifford Winston, Robert W. Crandall, and Vikram Maheshri.
They argue that deregulating entry by individuals and firms into the legal profession will inherently improve lawyers’ performance, as they contend for business in a more competitive environment.