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  • Last Resort

    The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

    by 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 investments, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, aren't we encouraging them to continue to act irresponsibly, setting the stage for future crises? And beyond the ethics of it was the question of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Demagogue's Playbook

    The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump

    by Eric A. Posner ...
    An analysis of demagogues in American political history and an argument for restoring the constitutional safeguards to protect against them."It is hard to imagine understanding the Trump presidency and its significance without reading this book." —Bob Bauer, former Chief Counsel to President Barack ObamaA New York Times Book Review Editor's PickWhat Happens to Demo... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Radical Markets

    Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

    by Eric A. Posner, Eric Glen Weyl ...
    Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head. With a new foreword by Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier as well as a new afterword ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • How Antitrust Failed Workers

    by Eric A. Posner ...
    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 to suppress wages. Since the 1970s, Americans have seen inequality skyrocket--and job opportunities stagnate. There are many theories of why this happened, including the decline of organized labor, changes ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract

    by Richard Epstein, Eric A. Posner, Michael J. Trebilcock, Timothy J. Muris ...
    Declared dead some twenty-five years ago, the idea of freedom of contract has enjoyed a remarkable intellectual revival. In The Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract leading scholars in the fields of contract law and law-and-economics analyze the new interest in bargaining freedom.The 1970s was a decade of regulatory triumphalism in North America, marked by a surge in consumer, securities, and ... Read more

    $115.19 USD

  • Terror in the Balance

    Security, Liberty, and the Courts

    by Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule ...
    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 policy and liberties in the times of emergency. They emphasize the virtues of unilateral executive actions and argue for making extensive powers available to the executive as warranted. The judiciary should neither second-guess ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • The Executive Unbound

    After the Madisonian Republic

    by Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "imperial presidency" as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gained ascendancy, the argument has blazed hotter than ever. Many argue the Constitution itself is in grave danger. What is to be ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Limits of International Law

    by Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner ...
    International law is much debated and discussed, but poorly understood. Does international law matter, or do states regularly violate it with impunity? If international law is of no importance, then why do states devote so much energy to negotiating treaties and providing legal defenses for their actions? In turn, if international law does matter, why does it reflect the interests of powerful ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Constitution in Wartime

    Beyond Alarmism and Complacency

    by Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber, Mark E. Brandon, Eric A. Posner ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Most recent discussion of the United States Constitution and war—both the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq—has been dominated by two diametrically opposed views: the alarmism of those who see many current policies as portending gross restrictions on American civil liberties, and the complacency of those who see these same policies as entirely reasonable accommodations to the new realities of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Limits of International Law

    by Jack L. Goldsmith, Eric A. Posner ...
    International law is much debated and discussed, but poorly understood. Does international law matter, or do states regularly violate it with impunity? If international law is of no importance, then why do states devote so much energy to negotiating treaties and providing legal defenses for their actions? In turn, if international law does matter, why does it reflect the interests of powerful ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Executive Unbound

    After the Madisonian Republic

    by Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule ...
    Ever since Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used "imperial presidency" as a book title, the term has become central to the debate about the balance of power in the U.S. government. Since the presidency of George W. Bush, when advocates of executive power such as Dick Cheney gained ascendancy, the argument has blazed hotter than ever. Many argue the Constitution itself is in grave danger. What is to be ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Climate Change Justice

    by 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 would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative ... Read more

    $20.99 USD