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Eric Posner

    December 5, 1965

    Eric Posner is a professor of law at the University of Chicago. His work delves into a wide range of legal topics, including international law, contract law, and cost-benefit analysis. Posner explores the interplay between law and social norms, seeking to understand the limits of international law in the contemporary global landscape. His research focuses on current challenges in international law, immigration law, and foreign relations.

    The Twilight of Human Rights Law
    How Antitrust Failed Workers
    Radical Markets
    The Demagogue's Playbook
    The Last Resort
    Climate Change Justice
    • 2021

      How Antitrust Failed Workers

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.7(25)Add rating

      "Antitrust law has very rarely been used by workers to challenge anticompetitive employment practices. Yet recent empirical research shows that labor markets are highly concentrated, and that employers engage in practices that harm competition and suppress wages. These practices include no-poaching agreements, wage-fixing, mergers, covenants not to compete, and misclassification of gig workers as independent contractors. This failure of antitrust to challenge labor-market misbehavior is due to a range of other failures-intellectual, political, moral, and economic. And the impact of this failure has been profound for wage levels, economic growth, and inequality. In light of the recent empirical work, it is urgent for regulators, courts, lawyers, and Congress to redirect antitrust resources to labor market problems. This book offers a strategy for judicial and legislative reform"-- Provided by publisher

      How Antitrust Failed Workers
    • 2020

      The Demagogue's Playbook

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.9(107)Add rating

      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 appears to be broken?

      The Demagogue's Playbook
    • 2018

      The Last Resort

      • 219 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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 our policy options before we need them.

      The Last Resort
    • 2018

      Radical Markets

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.0(1192)Add rating

      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 19th-century spirit of liberal reform and lead to greater equality, prosperity, and cooperation.

      Radical Markets
    • 2014

      The Twilight of Human Rights Law

      • 185 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.4(61)Add rating

      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 citizens.

      The Twilight of Human Rights Law
    • 2010

      Climate Change Justice

      • 220 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      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 climate treaty is to exclude measures designed to redistribute wealth or address historical wrongs against underdeveloped countries.

      Climate Change Justice