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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

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $32.99 CAD

  • 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

    $20.99 CAD

  • Law and Social Norms

    by Eric Posner ...
    What is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and nonlegal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But he also argues that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and complex task, and that ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Twilight of Human Rights Law

    by Eric Posner ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Countries solemnly intone their commitment to human rights, and they ratify endless international treaties and conventions designed to signal that commitment. At the same time, there has been no marked decrease in human rights violations, even as the language of human rights has become the dominant mode of international moral criticism. Well-known violators like Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan have ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • 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

    $28.79 CAD

  • Economic Foundations of International Law

    by Eric Posner, Alan O. Sykes ...
    The ever-increasing exchange of goods and ideas among nations, as well as cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime, pose urgent questions for international law. Here, two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these pressing legal problems from a rational choice perspective.The approach assumes that states are rational, forward-looking agents ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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

    $27.99 CAD

  • 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

    $49.59 CAD

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    Last Resort

    The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts

    by Eric A. Posner ...
    Narrated by Steve Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    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

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook