Regulation after a first occurrence : Cornell bans students from skinning bears in a dormitory kitchen

 It turns out that Cornell had no rule preventing students from skinning bears in a communal dormitory kitchen.  But now they do. (A lot of regulation works like that... keep an eye on AI...)

Students Skinned a Bear in a Dorm. Cornell Realized It Should Ban That.
After two Cornell University students skinned a black bear in a communal kitchen last year to make a meal, the school changed the rules.  By Miles G. Cohen

Annual Review of Economics - Volume 18, 2026

 Now published: Annual Review of Economics - Volume 18, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/economics.2026.18.issue-1

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• • • Dynamic Contracting

      Alessandro Pavan

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080525-114300

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  • • The Economics of Professional Decision-Making: Can Artificial Intelligence Reduce Decision Uncertainty?

      W. Bentley MacLeod

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-071111

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  • • The Governance Triangle: Economic Interactions in Civil Society, the State, and the Market

      Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-081424-080722

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  • • Evidence in Games and Mechanisms

      Elchanan Ben-Porath, Eddie Dekel and Barton L. Lipman

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-060215

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  • • Natural Language Processing and Innovation Research

      Antonin Bergeaud, Adam Jaffe and Dimitris Papanikolaou

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-072225-113623

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  • • Masculinity Norms and Their Economic Implications

      Ieda Matavelli, Pauline Grosjean, Ralph De Haas and Victoria Baranov

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-065932

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  • • The Neuroeconomics of Simple and Complex Choice

      Peter Bossaerts and Wolfram Schultz

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-062344

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  • • Transfers of Technology and Management Practices: Evidence from the Twentieth Century

      Michela Giorcelli

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-055215

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  • • Religion in Emerging and Developing Regions

      Sara Lowes, Benjamin Marx and Eduardo Montero

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-065145

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  • • The Global Economic Impact of Climate Change: An Empirical Perspective

      Solomon Hsiang

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-102224-021145

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  • • Monetary Policy, Bank Fragility, and the Modern Financial Intermediation

      Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-060715

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  • • Large Language Models: An Applied Econometric Framework

      Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan and Ashesh Rambachan

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-120925-105620

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  • • International Migration and Economic Development

      Dean Yang

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-081525-021320

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  • • The Economic Impacts of Gender-Based Violence and Harassment

      Abi Adams and Emily Nix

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-062754

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  • • Firm Size and Dynamics in Less Developed Economies

      Marcela Eslava

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-081525-072902

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  • • Learning in a Correlated World

      Arjada Bardhi and Steven Callander

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-072515

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  • • Market Power in Artificial Intelligence

      Joshua S. Gans

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-061832

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  • • Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Precolonial Africa

      Soeren J. Henn and James A. Robinson

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-070224

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  • • Why Did Inflation Rise and Fall in 2021–2024? Channels and Evidence from Expectations

      Ricardo Reis

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-072332

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  • • Uneven Modernization in the Muslim World

      Timur Kuran and Fasih Zulfiqar

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-064953

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  • • What Makes New Work Different from More Work?

      David Autor, Caroline Chin, Anna Salomons and Bryan Seegmiller

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-092325-041649

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  • • The Economics of Religion: A Review

      Paul Seabright

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-064410

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  • • Economic Growth Under Transformative AI

      Philip Trammell and Anton Korinek

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-061002

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  • • Organ Allocation and Transplantation

      Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-092425-123425

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  • • What Every PhD Student Should Know About Adam Smith

      Barry R. Weingast

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-073128

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  • • Credit and Exports: Lessons From Micro-Level Data

      Banu Demir and Veronica Rappoport

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-055456

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  • • The Macroeconomics of Market Power

      Jan De Loecker and Jan Eeckhout

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-100825-105527

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• Symposium on the Economics of Religion

• • • Religion in Emerging and Developing Regions

      Sara Lowes, Benjamin Marx and Eduardo Montero

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-065145

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  • • Uneven Modernization in the Muslim World

      Timur Kuran and Fasih Zulfiqar

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-064953

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  • • The Economics of Religion: A Review

      Paul Seabright

      https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-051624-064410

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