From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Fri Nov 26 1999 - 08:07:52 MST
In a message dated 99-11-23 19:04:39 EST, rhanson@gmu.edu (Robin Hanson)
wrote:
> "Law and Economics" is an academic field where people use economic tools
> to understand law, and is one of the triumphs of modern economics.
> (Posner, the new Microsoft trial mediator, was a founder of the field.)
> So law can be understood as "scientifically" as any area of economics.
I was thrilled when I heard that Judge Posner was to be the Microsoft
mediator. My torts professor stuck his neck out a billion years ago when he
used Posner's then-new case book as our basic text in my first-year torts
class. This experience went a long way to preparing me to understand and
accept David Friedman's work . . .
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
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question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
-- Desmond Morris
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