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- Brain Steroids: Ban Or Boost?
- Drugs are bad for productivity, right? Well, maybe not. While you can probably correlate productivity increases with declines in per capita drinking, what about coffee or Diet Coke? These can act as mild stimulants. Then there's full-fledged brain steroids, say, a drug like Provigil, which...
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Gary Becker on Whether Our Goose Is Cooked
- Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economist with creative views on economics and a wealth of experience in international economies, thinks we'll come through this crisis in reasonable shape. He says global capitalism will more or less continue on its course, rebounding from recession in a reasonably short time. He does...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Posner Advises Press to Commit Business Suicide
- When it comes to those advising the terrified newspaper industry how to survive, there's been the dumb and then the dumber. Now, we officially have heard from The Dumbest Person in The World, although in conventional circles he's considered one of the most brilliant. Chicago-based U.S. Appeals...
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Richard Posner: Scourge of Excessive Mutual-Fund Fees
- Mutual fund investors may have a new hero. His name is Judge Richard Posner, and largely because of him, the Supreme Court will examine how mutual funds set their fees. This past summer, Posner wrote a strong dissent in the Jones v. Harris Associates case, roundly criticizing...
- Blog posts 2009-04-06
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- The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency: an interview with Judge Richard Posner
- In September, Oxford University Press published Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, written by Richard Posner, a judge on the US. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Judge Posner's book, which explores how we might strike a balance between constitutionally protected liberties and...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Constitutional fact and theory: a response to Chief Judge Posner.(response to Richard A. Posner, New York University Law Review, vol. 73, p. 1, 1998)
- Chief Judge Richard Posner's criticism of law professors and judges for spending too much time on constitutional theory and not enough on empircism is misplaced. Facts cannot serve as replacements for constitutional theory, nor can they resolve questions posed by it. Empirical knowledge is useful in revealing the theoretical questions...
- Research articles 1999-03-01
- Hoover Institution Press: Remaking Domestic Intelligence by Richard A. Posner
- STANFORD, Calif. -- The author of Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) follows up that analysis with an equally compelling argument for reforming the FBI. In the monograph, Remaking Domestic Intelligence (Hoover Institution Press, 2005), Richard Posner develops the case for reform...
- Research articles 2005-08-30
- Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. (Books in review: Posner proves his case). (book review)
- Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline By Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 RICHARD A. POSNER'S PUBLIC Intellectuals reminds me of my grandmother's attic: here an elephant table brought home from Africa; there a cuckoo clock; all around, a...
- Research articles 2002-02-11
- The Bleeding Edge of Media Business Models
- Sometimes the comments thread behind one of my posts raises points that deserve more than a simple response from me -- they deserve a full airing and perhaps a debate. Last week's "Posner Advises Press to Commit Business Suicide," drew a bunch of comments, especially from people who felt I'd...
- Blog posts 2009-07-04
- Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline
- By Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press, 408 pp., $29.95. NEAR THE END of Public Intellectuals, Richard Posner observes that Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974 "because people were outraged." This was perhaps the public's most dramatic gesture of the second half of the 20th century. But...
- Research articles 2002-04-10
- For The Record.
- Microsoft flap moves to Chicago Officials of the U.S. Department of Justice and executives of Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Corp. met in Chicago with U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner. Last month, a judge in Washington released his findi Microsoft flap moves to...
- Research articles 1999-12-06
- The Microsoft case: The go- between.(Microsoft antitrust case)(Brief Article)
- EVEN Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson described it as "something of a surprise". In fact, the appointment of a fellow judge, the head of the Chicago Appeals Court, Richard Posner, to try and mediate a settlement of the Microsoft antitrust case EVEN Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson described...
- Research articles 1999-11-27
- Chicago Observer: His latest opinion: Harvard Law's vacant deanship holds no appeal.(Briefs)
- Byline: Steven R. Strahler Richard Posner, chief judge of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, denies informed speculation that he's been offered-or at least sounded out about-the job of Harvard Law School dean. A conservative legal scholar wh Byline: Steven...
- Research articles 2003-03-24
- Is College Necessary?
- With 60 percent of Americans now attending college, Richard Posner asks whether the number might go to 100 percent (don't snort; it wasn't even a century ago that most people didn't go to high school). At first, in his post on the boom in college education, he seems to think...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- If Lutherans ruled
- THAT'S RIDICULOUS! So spake the brilliant, productive, acerbic federal judge Richard Posner. What was ridiculous, in his eyes, was the position taken by an attorney for the University of Notre Dame. As reported in the Chicago Sun-Times (January 11), the issue was $465,000 of federal money allocated to Notre Dame,...
- Research articles 2006-05-02
- How Do You Know When You're in a Depression?
- The Find: Hopefully the discussion is entirely academic, but when does a recession become a depression? A blog offers some possible indicators, while one prominent economist says that if you want to know what a depression looks like, look around â€" we're in one now. The Source:...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- Stanford Law School Community Mourns the Death of Renowned Constitutional Law Scholar and Former Dean John Hart Ely.(Obituary)
- Byline: Stanford Law School STANFORD, Calif., Oct. 27 AScribe Newswire -- Former Stanford Law School Dean John Hart Ely died on Saturday, October 25, in Miami, Florida, of cancer. At the time of his death, he was the Richard A. Hausler Professor of Law...
- Research articles 2003-10-27
- Women Make Better Managers than Men
- The new gender gap puts women in front of men, at least in school. So says Gary Becker, the Nobel Prize Winning economist, in a post on the blog he shares with Richard Posner. Ultimately, says Becker: Whatever the explanation for the remarkable shift in college attendance rates of...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- The Microsoft Mess
- To anyone on the respective legal teams of Microsoft and the Department of Justice who still laid claim to optimism, the Consent Decree of 2000 must have seemed like a snowball, gaining size and stability as it ping-ponged between Redmond, Wash., Washington, D.C., and the Chicago chambers of master mediator...
- Research articles 2000-04-10
- Toyota principle, The
- It is a widespread but mistaken belief that the relationship between law and economics was first recognized by Ronald Coase in a 1960 article called "The Problem of Social Cost."1 Although Professor Coase and a handful of other economists, such as Aaron Director and Richard Posner at Chicago, have done...
- Research articles 1999-07-01
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