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Uncommon Sense
Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
Av Gary S. Becker, Richard A. Posner
Häftad, 2010
213 kr
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On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the Becker-Posner Blog. In no time, the blog had …
Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency
Inbunden, 2006
596 kr
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Catastrophe
Risk and Response
Häftad, 2006
504 kr
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Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the …
Catastrophe
Risk and Response
E-bok, 2004
367 kr
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Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the …
Law and Legal Theory in England and America
Inbunden, 1997
1848 kr
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Richard Posner is famous throughout the legal world for his pioneering and controversial espousal of the belief that the study of law cannot be divorced from the study of economics. Here, in this volume of essays based upon his Clarendon Lectures, he explores the relationship between the legal …
Catastrophe
Risk and Response
E-bok, 2004
326 kr
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Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the …
Uncommon Sense
Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
Av Gary S. Becker, Richard A. Posner
Inbunden, 2009
290 kr
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On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize - winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the Becker-Posner Blog. In no time, the blog had …
Uncommon Sense
Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
Av Richard A. Posner, Gary S. Becker
E-bok, 2009
419 kr
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On December 5, 2004, the still-developing blogosphere took one of its biggest steps toward mainstream credibility, as Nobel Prize–winning economist Gary S. Becker and renowned jurist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner announced the formation of the Becker-Posner Blog. In no time, the blog had …
Essential Holmes
Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Av Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richard A. Posner
Häftad, 1997
345 kr
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge, historian, philosopher and master of English …
Cardozo
A Study in Reputation
Häftad, 1993
509 kr
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What makes a great judge? How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputation is fairly deserved? In this ambitious book, Richard Posner confronts these questions in the case of Benjamin Cardozo. The result is both a revealing …
Guide to America's Sex Laws
Av Richard A. Posner, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Inbunden, 1996
788 kr
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Sex, although considered by many in our culture the quintessential private activity, is blanketed by a large number and variety of laws. This text presents a concise compendium of the America's sex laws and brings together in one place, and summarizes, the laws regulating personal sexual activity. …
Guide to America's Sex Laws
Av Richard A. Posner, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Häftad, 1998
228 kr
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A Guide to America's Sex Laws is the first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws. It summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity, revealing gaps, anachronisms, anomalies, inequalities, and irrationalities, and providing an empirical basis for studies of sexual regulation. Judge …
Aging and Old Age
Häftad, 1997
282 kr
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Are the elderly posing a threat to America's political system with their enormous clout? Are they stretching resources to the breaking point with their growing demands for care? Economist and legal scholar Richard A. Posner explodes the myth that the United States could be on the brink of …
Antitrust Law, Second Edition
Inbunden, 2001
678 kr
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When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard A. Posner's exposition and defence of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen away, Posner's book has …
Antitrust Law, Second Edition
Häftad, 2019
346 kr
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When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen away, Posner's book has …
Little Book of Plagiarism
E-bok, 2009
91 kr
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A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns …
Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory
Häftad, 2002
468 kr
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Ambitious legal thinkers have become mesmerized by moral philosophy, believing that great figures in the philosophical tradition hold the keys to understanding and improving law and justice and even to resolving the most contentious issues of constitutional law. They are wrong, contends Richard …
Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law
Av William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner
Inbunden, 2003
741 kr
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This book takes a fresh look at the most dynamic area of American law today, comprising the fields of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secrecy, publicity rights, and misappropriation. Topics range from copyright in private letters to defensive patenting of business methods, from moral rights in …
Public Intellectuals
A Study of Decline, With a New Preface and Epilogue
Häftad, 2003
326 kr
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In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey.With …
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
Häftad, 2005
321 kr
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A liberal state is a representative democracy constrained by the rule of law. Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests rather than by reason and the decisions of judges by …
Behavior of Federal Judges
A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Rational Choice
Av Lee Epstein, William M. Landes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The system permits judges to be quite secretive (and most of them are), so indirect methods are required to make sense of their behavior. Here, a political …
Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
E-bok, 2010
354 kr
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Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism , Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter …
Sex and Reason
Häftad, 1994
494 kr
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Sexual drives are rooted in biology, but we don’t act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived.Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and …
Uncertain Shield
The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform
Inbunden, 2006
247 kr
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Ever since the publication in 2004 of the 9/11 Commission Report, the U.S. intelligence community has been in the throes of a convulsive movement for reform. In Preventing Surprise Attacks (2005), Richard A. Posner carried the story of the reform movement up to the enactment of the Intelligence …
Coase Theorem
Av Richard A Posner, Francesco Parisi
Inbunden, 2013
10898 kr
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This two-volume collection provides an overview of essential works for understanding one of the most important contributions to the field of law and economics: the Coase Theorem. A variety of prominent scholars contribute crucial essays, each exploring different aspects of Coase’s work. Volume I …
Breaking the Deadlock
The 2000 Election, the Constitution, and the Courts
E-bok, 2001
500 kr
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The 2000 Presidential election ended in a collision of history, law, and the courts. It produced a deadlock that dragged out the result for over a month, and consequences--real and imagined--that promise to drag on for years. In the first in-depth study of the election and its litigious aftermath, …
Economic Foundations of Private Law
Av Richard A. Posner, Francesco Parisi
Häftad, 2002
604 kr
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This paperback reader brings together some seminal papers on law and economics, with special emphasis on the foundational contributions to the economics of property, contracts and torts. The growing influence of these writings in the judicial profession, and in the academic world, underscores the …
