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The Demagogue’s Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump

Eric A. Posner

What - and who - is a demagogue? How did America’s Founders envision the presidency? What should a constitutional democracy look like - and how can it be fixed when…

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Aspen Treatise for Contract Law and Theory

Eric A Posner

Contract Law and Theory, Second Edition conveys a grasp of theory and policy that makes all of the contract rules easier to understand. By explaining and applying contract theory to…

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Law and Economics

An anthology of articles on law and economics. The first part contains more traditional law and economics articles, covering a range of conventional legal topics. The second part attempts to…

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The Demagogue’s Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump

Eric A. Posner

What - and who - is a demagogue? How did America’s Founders envision the presidency? What should a constitutional democracy look like and how can it be fixed when it…

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The Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Eric A. Posner

Taking up the common objections raised by both right and left, Posner argues that future bailouts will occur. Acknowledging that inevitability, we can and must look ahead and carefully assess…

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The Perils of Global Legalism

Eric A. Posner

Demonstrates that the weaknesses of international rule of law confound legalist ambitions - and that whatever their professed commitments, all nations stand ready to dispense with international agreements when it…

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The Perils of Global Legalism

Eric A. Posner

Demonstrates that the weaknesses of international rule of law confound legalist ambitions - and that whatever their professed commitments, all nations stand ready to dispense with international agreements when it…

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Mercados Radicales: Como Subvertir El Capitalismo Y La Democracia Para Lograr Una Sociedad Justa

Eric A Posner

En muchas ocasiones, la desigualdad economica, el estancamiento y la inestabilidad politica del mundo actual se achacan al libre mercado. Segun esta vision, la solucion pasaria por atar en corto…

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Law and Social Norms

Eric Posner

Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. He argues that…

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Economic Foundations of International Law

Eric Posner,Alan O. Sykes

Exchange of goods and ideas among nations, cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime pose formidable questions for international law. Two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these…

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Climate Change Justice

Eric A. Posner,David Weisbach

Favoring both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice, this title makes a case that the best - and possibly only - way to get an effective…

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Climate Change Justice

Eric A. Posner,David Weisbach

Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should–indeed, must–directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this…

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Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Eric A Posner

The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair-and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible…

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Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Eric A Posner

The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair-and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible…

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Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

Eric A Posner

The bailouts during the recent financial crisis enraged the public. They felt unfair-and counterproductive: people who take risks must be allowed to fail. If we reward firms that make irresponsible…

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Cost-benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic and Philosophical Perspectives

Matthew D. Adler,Eric A. Posner

Cost-benefit analysis is a widely used governmental evaluation tool, though academics remain skeptical. This volume gathers prominent contributors for discussion of cost-benefit analysis, specifically its moral foundations, applications and limitations.

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Law and Happiness

Brings together some of the best and most influential thinkers in the field of philosophy to explore the question of what happiness is - and what factors can be demonstrated…

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Law and Happiness

Brings together some of the best and most influential thinkers in the field of philosophy to explore the question of what happiness is - and what factors can be demonstrated…

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The Twilight of Human Rights Law

Eric Posner (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Chicago)

Nearly all countries have ratified nearly all the major human rights treaties, and all governments profess support for human rights, yet most countries flagrantly violate the human rights of their…

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New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Matthew D. Adler,Eric Posner

In this book, the authors reconceptualize cost-benefit analysis, arguing that its objective should be overall well-being rather than economic efficiency. This book not only places cost-benefit analysis on a firmer…

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How Antitrust Failed Workers

Eric A. Posner (Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago)

A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the failure of antitrust law to prevent the consolidation of employers, who use their market power…

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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

Eric A. Posner, E Glen Weyl

Revealing bold new ways to structure markets for the good of everyone, this book shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can reawaken the dormant…

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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

Eric A. Posner,E Glen Weyl

Revealing bold new ways to structure markets for the good of everyone, this book shows how the emancipatory force of genuinely open, free, and competitive markets can reawaken the dormant…

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Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

Eric A. Posner (Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, The University of Chicago),Adrian Vermeule (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)

In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust…

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The Limits of International Law: The Limits of International Law

Jack L. Goldsmith (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School),Eric A. Posner (Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, University of Chicago)

In The Limits of International Law, Goldsmith and Posner argue that international law matters, but that it is less powerful than public officials, legal experts, and the media believe. International…

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The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

Eric A. Posner (Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School),Adrian Vermeule (John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)

Legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule argue that the great complexity of the modern world produces a concentration of power, particularly in the White House. The authors chart the…

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The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

Eric A. Posner (Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School),Adrian Vermeule (John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School)

Legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule argue that the great complexity of the modern world produces a concentration of power, particularly in the White House. The authors chart the…

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