new law blog

Go visit Professors Becker and Posner's new weblog. Currently, they are posting once a week (Mondays).

Judge Posner is the fedral judge/law professor at UofC, and Becker is the Noble Prize wining economist at the same school. I can assuredly project that this will be a consistently fun read. Here is their introduction to the blog:

Blogging is a major new social, political, and economic phenomenon. It is a fresh and striking exemplification of Friedrich Hayek's thesis that knowledge is widely distributed among people and that the challenge to society is to create mechanisms for pooling that knowledge. The powerful mechanism that was the focus of Hayek's work, as as of economists generally, is the price system (the market). The newest mechanism is the "blogosphere." There are 4 million blogs. The internet enables the instantaneous pooling (and hence correction, refinement, and amplification) of the ideas and opinions, facts and images, reportage and scholarship, generated by bloggers.

We have decided to start a blog that will explore current issues of economics, law, and policy in a dialogic format. Initially we will be posting just once a week, on Mondays. In time we may post more frequently. The first postings will be tomorrow, December 6.

You can find the link under my "legal" dropdown menu.