Monday, December 06, 2004
Well the Becker-Posner blog is off to a good start. www.becker-posnerblog.com. 4 million blogs... a good reminder how pointless this one is. The idea of updating weekly is a good one. Or rather the idea of announcing they will be updating weekly is a good one; it cues people in on what to expect. This blog gets updated anywhere from a few times a day to once a month. Buncha suckups in the comments, like the guy who made it his homepage.
Is Posner right that judicial ethics prohibit him from endorsing candidates, after Mn GOP v White? I'm not suggesting he would want to. I'm wondering a) minor premise: whether judicial ethics prevent a judge from endorsing candidates b) major premise:
whether Posner is wrong about this, suggesting he doesn't get the first amendment, or lying, which is an odd thing to do while discussing ethics. Perhaps it matters that he is an appointed federal judge rather than one who runs for office. Maybe it's a close enough question he's allowed to be wrong, if he's wrong. Maybe he's right. I suppose I shouldn't expect infallibility - if I don't know, why should he? Until a few years ago, his answer would have been right (descriptively if not normatively.)
Posner comes to blogging with tons of reputation capital as an author, professor, and judge. It'll be interesting to see if he ends up known to history primarily as a blogger.
Preventive, or preventative?
Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle: preventive measures.
Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle: preventive measures.
Variant of preventive.
Dictionary.com gives them the same definition, so might as well use the shorter one.
Advocates of laissez-faire economic policies often make the argument that it is not enough to call some state of affairs “market failure” and propose a state solution; the intended solution may make the state of affairs worse. “Government failure” often aggravates “market failure".
Catallarchy discussing Becker. Nice to hear someone else saying that. I obviously like catallarchy for its libertarianess (is that a word?) I should keep an eye out for how it handles ecological and gender issues; these are sometimes weaknesses of that sort of outlook.
Update: crooked timber thinks it's all a hoax. funny.
Is Posner right that judicial ethics prohibit him from endorsing candidates, after Mn GOP v White? I'm not suggesting he would want to. I'm wondering a) minor premise: whether judicial ethics prevent a judge from endorsing candidates b) major premise:
whether Posner is wrong about this, suggesting he doesn't get the first amendment, or lying, which is an odd thing to do while discussing ethics. Perhaps it matters that he is an appointed federal judge rather than one who runs for office. Maybe it's a close enough question he's allowed to be wrong, if he's wrong. Maybe he's right. I suppose I shouldn't expect infallibility - if I don't know, why should he? Until a few years ago, his answer would have been right (descriptively if not normatively.)
Posner comes to blogging with tons of reputation capital as an author, professor, and judge. It'll be interesting to see if he ends up known to history primarily as a blogger.
Preventive, or preventative?
Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle: preventive measures.
Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle: preventive measures.
Variant of preventive.
Dictionary.com gives them the same definition, so might as well use the shorter one.
Advocates of laissez-faire economic policies often make the argument that it is not enough to call some state of affairs “market failure” and propose a state solution; the intended solution may make the state of affairs worse. “Government failure” often aggravates “market failure".
Catallarchy discussing Becker. Nice to hear someone else saying that. I obviously like catallarchy for its libertarianess (is that a word?) I should keep an eye out for how it handles ecological and gender issues; these are sometimes weaknesses of that sort of outlook.
Update: crooked timber thinks it's all a hoax. funny.
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