Recommendation

I highly recommend to any of you the Beck-Posner Blog, to which there is link on the side of this page.  The page is a collaboration between the quite noteworthy Federal Seventh Ciruit Judge Richard Posner, also a professor at the University of Chicago Law School- well known as the leader in the "Law and Economics School" of legal thought, as well as a well known economist Gary Becker, a professor at the University of Chicago. 

Occasionally the analysis is too much for me to get through, but at least the most recent posts about Social Security are really quite fascinating and more articulate than anything I could post here.  It's also quite amazing to me how the world of the blog is really changing our society.  Posner is essentially one step down from a Supreme Court Justice in the grand scheme of things, yet on his blog people can make comments as simply as they do here on this page-- and he routinely replies to them!  Although I imagine that if the numbers were high enough in terms of comments he may be swamped, I think in general this sort of direct and casual communication is a good thing as well as a thing that is truely changing society.

Comments

[adam]

Gary Becker is a brilliant mind, but beware of his viewpoint being skewed...he comes from a very particular school of thought, though while one of the great minds of our time(and I really meant that...Nobel Laureate and all) he definitely has a specific view given economic theory. He is not the end all be all when push come to suhove, but is certainly an invalubale critical thinker.

[adam]

Gary Becker is a brilliant mind, but beware of his viewpoint being skewed...he comes from a very particular school of thought, though while one of the great minds of our time(and I really meant that...Nobel Laureate in '92 and all) he definitely has a specific view given economic theory. He is not the end all be all when push come to shove, but he is certainly an invalubale critical thinker. It is worth exploring many of his alternatives.