A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

IS IT TIME TO MOVE BEYOND PRIVAE PROPERTY?

Eric A. Posner & E. Glen Weyl, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Princeton & Oxford; Princeton University Press, 2018). It would be inappropriate for me to even try to summarize the book here. One will just have to decide whether one is willing to invest the time and intellectual energy in reading it and grappling with its argument(s). However, to quote from the text: "Even if we don’t sell you on all our ideas, we hope this book will open your mind to a new way of imagining the economy and politics. This challenging moment, when long-held assumptions are being overturned, is ripe for radical rethinking." Id. at 29. Obviously Trump and his followers are engaged in radical thinking of the harmful and counterproductive kind. It would be wise and prudent to at least consider some radical thinking of a more positive and productive kind.