October 18, 2006 · Lessig
Tim Wu and Stuart Sierra have built “Project Posner” — a free database of all of Judge Posner‘s opinions. There isn’t a federal judge I respect more, both as a judge and person, and while I clerked for him, I can claim credit for only one thing that he’s done: The Posner-Becker Blog.
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That’s really nice to know.
Cheers!!
Jason S
I Blog at http://jsbi.blogspot.com
I think you mean the Becker-Posner blog!
Seriously, though, that blog is an impressive resource–it’s astonishing how prolific Posner and Becker are, and how complex the issues they confront can be.
Between that blog, Freakonomics, The Long Tail, and of course Thomas Friedman, it seems like creative practical economics is enjoying a period of incredible productivity–and I think Posner’s opinions were some of the first material to demonstrate a use (and a need) for such scholarship.