Jeffrey Friedman is a visiting scholar in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin and Max Weber Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advancement of the Social Sciences, Boston University. He is the editor of Critical Review.
39 Ebooks por Richard A. Posner
Jeffrey Friedman: What Caused the Financial Crisis
The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncoverin …
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Richard A. Posner: Breaking the Deadlock
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 pro …
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T. Markus Funk & Virginia M. Kendall: Child Exploitation and Trafficking
Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation. The numbers of children sexually abused for non-commercial purposes are even higher. Put simp …
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T. Markus Funk & Virginia M. Kendall: Child Exploitation and Trafficking
Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual and labor exploitation. Put simply, the growing epidemic of child exploitation demands a coordinated respon …
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Stephen K. George: Ethics, Literature, and Theory
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relation …
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Richard A. Posner: Catastrophe
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 launche …
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Richard A. Posner: Not a Suicide Pact
Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. citizens; demands by the FBI for records of library borrowings; establishment of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens–many …
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Richard A. Posner: Catastrophe
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 launche …
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€15.30
Richard A. Posner: Reflections on Judging
For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges–notably Antonin Scalia–present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism- …
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Richard A. Posner: Remaking Domestic Intelligence
The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need fo …
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Mary Keyes & Richard Posner: Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws
This title was first published in 2001. After languishing for decades in the domains of rigid doctrinalism and confusing theory, the conflict of laws is increasingly being recognized as an important …
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€42.36
Mary Keyes & Richard Posner: Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws
This title was first published in 2001. After languishing for decades in the domains of rigid doctrinalism and confusing theory, the conflict of laws is increasingly being recognized as an important …
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€42.52
Richard A. Posner: Remaking Domestic Intelligence
The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need fo …
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€12.85
Lee Epstein & William M. Landes: Behavior of Federal Judges
Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a jud …
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€58.00
Oliver Wendell Holmes: Essential Holmes
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 Posn …
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€42.54
Robert F. Blomquist: The Quotable Judge Posner
A collection of pithy and penetrating observations and rulings by one of the most famous appellate judges in America, The Quotable Judge Posner showcases the wit and wisdom of Richard A. Posner. Duri …
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€33.99
Robert R. Glauber & Thomas J. Healey: New Directions in Financial Services Regulation
Prominent policy makers, practitioners, and scholars discuss regulatory reform in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008.The financial crisis of 2008 raised crucial questions regarding the eff …
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Burton Gerber & Jennifer E. Sims: Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks
Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence-good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile col …
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Richard A. Posner: Federal Courts
The federal courts are the world’s most powerful judiciary and a vital element of the American political system. In recent decades, these courts have experienced unprecedented growth in caseload and …
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Richard A. Posner: Sex and Reason
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 …
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Richard A. Posner: Public Intellectuals
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 ch …
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Richard A. Posner: Affair of State
President Bill Clinton’s year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of important questions of criminal and constitutional …
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Richard A. Posner: Law and Literature
Hailed in its first edition as an "outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished" (New York Times), Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post’s …
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William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner: Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law
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 …
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Gary S. Becker & Richard A. Posner: Uncommon Sense
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 schola …
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Charles Fried & Richard A. Posner: Shylock on Trial
William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law, his plays rich in its terms, settings, and thought processes. In Shylock on Trial: The Appellate Briefs, the Hon. Richard A. Posner and Charle …
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Richard A. Posner: Antitrust Law, Second Edition
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 cha …
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Richard A. Posner: Cardozo
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, Richar …
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Richard A. Posner: Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
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 c …
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€41.28
David M. Dorsen: Henry Friendly, Greatest Judge of His Era
Henry Friendly is frequently grouped with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, and Learned Hand as the best American jurists of the twentieth century. In this first, comprehensive …
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Lee Epstein & William M. Landes: Behavior of Federal Judges
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 …
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Richard A. Posner: Reflections on Judging
In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Surveying how the judiciary has cha …
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Richard A. Posner: Failure of Capitalism
The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we’ …
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Richard A. Posner: Problems of Jurisprudence
In this book, one of our country’s most distinguished scholar-judges shares with us his vision of the law. For the past two thousand years, the philosophy of law has been dominated by two rival doctr …
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€55.09
William M. Landes & Richard A. Posner: Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law
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 …
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€106.35
Richard A. Posner: Law and Literature
Hailed in its first edition as an "outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished" (New York Times), Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post’s …
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€42.92
Richard A. Posner: How Judges Think
A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide ca …
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Richard A. Posner: Divergent Paths
Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges-at the risk …
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