In the movement's early days, " the legal academy paid little attention to our work" , recalls Guido Calabresi, a former dean of Yale Law School and another of the field's founding fathers.

耶鲁大学法学院前院长、法律经济学的另一位奠基人圭多·卡拉布雷西回忆道，在这场运动的早期，“法学界很少关注我们的工作”。