Word: posner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scholars and human rights organizations greeted the report with varying degrees of skepticism or approval. In a joint statement with Helsinki Watch and Americas Watch, two human rights groups, Michael Posner, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, accused the Administration of "disturbing biases" toward countries in which it "has a strong political stake." Hue-Tam Tai, a Vietnamese professor of history at Harvard University, questioned the conclusion that Hanoi was last year's most egregious human rights violator. "There are other countries, including China, Iran and some U.S. allies in South America, that I would...
...Suzanne Dechy, Charles DiBona, Mark Eichorn, Erica Eisenberg, Andrew Fletcher, William Foulkes, M. Fima Friedman, Paul Gompers, Loralic Goss, Alison Harrington, Emily Harrison, Adrienne Headley, Ron Herman, Michael Hirschorn, Raquel Jacobson, Per Jebsen, Kerry Kelgar, Scott Kogan, Mary Kwak, Deborah I esinsohn, Brian Melindez, Alan Morre, Steven Nusshaum, An Posner, Marvin Putnam, William Rehling, Samuel Rickless, Mitch Rosner, Chris Roy, Charles Rudmick, Jill Ruttenberg, Jell Russan, Laura Robinson, Michael Samols, Katherine Saunders, Henry Shapiro, Andrea Silbert, Daman Silvers, Steven Smart, Vivian Sogor, Jake Stevens, James Umlas, Elisheva, Tracy Velasquez, Ann Von Germeten, Doug Winthlop, Stan Yukoevitch, Bill Zachary and Charles...
...book concludes with a critique of affirmative action. Posner is on a well-traveled road here, and Posner adds little new to this familiar debate. This last section displays his clearest and most readable prose, but fails to live up to the perspicuity in his earlier pages, his economic analysis of common law and discerning a moral code in wealth-maximizing...
...Economics of Justice has serious flaws, to be sure. The passages of turgid, eye-glazing prose that seem to prevail, require an economics or law background. Posner prefaces each of his four treatises in professorial, outline-on-the-board fashion ("In this chapter, I ask how...," "I hope to challenge...," "I will sketch a model...). With such broad scope, The Economics of Justice cannot avoid a certain disjointedness, and the author's faith in the wonder of human rationality poses a familiar problem for questioning readers. Yet the incisiveness of Posner's ideas shine brilliantly through the flaws...
COMMON SENSE and moral intuition, which confirm so much of what Posner says about economic science and its relation to ethics, reject his optimistic assessment of freedom of information and prejudice. Bigotry survives, economic cost regardless, and probably will continue for along, long time. As approximations go, rationality has served the world of economists well, but so have fairies and demons the world of storytellers. Certain remembrances of the real world might be only the tiniest grain of salt that readers need to take Posner's theories...