I first encountered the work of Professor Manne in the mid-70s. Somewhere, I happened across an article he’d written in opposition to what he argued was the needless fool’s errand of trying to stamp out insider trading. I thought that was a fascinating piece of unconventional thinking.

We lost that paragon of unconventional thinking last weekend. Jane Shaw posted a tribute to him on Monday. Here is another by Ohio University economics professor Rich Vedder.

I’m happy to be able to say that Dean Manne took some of his valuable time last year to write an article for the Pope Center, a rebuttal to the notion that non-profit management is good and appropriate for colleges, but for-profit management is bad and inappropriate.