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Natural Monopoly and its Regulation
Cato Institute 1999; US$ 6.00This is the 30th anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com). more...
Catastrophe
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 19.99Introduction What is catastrophe? The organization of this book Some useful disctinctions 1. What are the catastrohpic risks, and how catastrophic are they? Natural catastrophes Scientific accidents Other unintended man-made catastrophes Intentional catastrophes Catastrophic synergies and lesser-included catastrophes 2. Why so little is being done... more...
Not a Suicide Pact
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 21.99Eavesdropping 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 of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated protests. In Not a Suicide Pact, Judge Richard A. Posner offers a cogent... more...
The Little Book of Plagiarism
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 12.95A 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 Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles... more...
Breaking the Deadlock
Princeton University Press 2001; US$ 36.50The 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, Judge Posner surveys the history and theory of American... more...
Uncommon Sense
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 17.00On 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 established a wide readership and reputation as... more...
Corporate Bankruptcy
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 50.00This collection is the first comprehensive selection of readings focusing on corporate bankruptcy. more...
Child Exploitation and Trafficking
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 69.99This book covers the history and present-day realities of the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and the law enforcement efforts to combat it. Written from the perspective of those who have spent their careers investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating these cases, the authors provide fresh, practical thinking to this challenging legal area.... more...
Natural Monopoly and Its Regulation
Cato Institute 1999; US$ 2.99Natural monopolies exist in those markets in which demand can be satisfied at lowest cost by the output of only one rather than several competing firms. Under such conditions, conventional wisdom suggests that government regulation must substitute for competition to discipline the behavior of firms. more...
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