All Posts Tagged With: "Judge Richard Posner"
Let’s Take the “Crony” Out of “Crony Capitalism”
When Judge Richard Posner, the prolific conservative intellectual, released his book A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent Into Depression last year, you might have thought the final verdict was in: Capitalism caused the economic downturn and high unemployment. That this verdict was pronounced by someone like Posner, who is associated [...]
24Mar2010 | John Stossel | 4 comments | ContinuedPolitics and Prohibition
Writing in the December 2001 Atlantic Monthly, Judge Richard Posner called for an end to the “war on drugs.” He is among a small but growing number of eminent scholars and officials who openly advocate that the state get out of the drug-prohibition business. Milton Friedman and William F. Buckley Jr. have long pressed for [...]
1Mar2002 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | ContinuedLaw’s Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters by David D. Friedman
Princeton University Press • 2000 • 329 pages • $29.95 Law and economics, or the economic analysis of law, is a relatively new discipline. It was launched in the late 1950s and early 1960s and has grown in importance and in the number of its practitioners ever since. It uses key principles of economics—such as [...]
1Mar2001 | Charles W. Baird | 2 comments | Continued-
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