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| + | ''[[Sex and Reason]]'' is a book by [[Richard Posner]]. | ||
| - | '''Richard Allen Posner''' (born January 11, 1939) is an American [[jurist]] and [[economist]] who was a [[United States federal judge|United States Circuit Judge]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] in [[Chicago]] from 1981 until 2017, and is a Senior Lecturer at the [[University of Chicago Law School]]. He is a leading figure in the field of [[law and economics]], and was identified by ''[[The Journal of Legal Studies]]'' as the [[Citation impact|most cited]] legal scholar of the 20th century. | ||
| - | Posner is known for his scholarly range and for writing on topics outside of his primary field, law. In his various writings and books, he has addressed animal rights, feminism, drug prohibition, gay marriage (though he has reversed positions and now favors gay marriage), Keynesian economics, and academic moral philosophy, among other subjects. | + | Blurb: |
| - | Posner is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, economics, and several other topics, including ''Economic Analysis of Law'', ''The Economics of Justice'', ''The Problems of Jurisprudence'', ''[[Sex and Reason]]'', ''Law, Pragmatism and Democracy'', and ''The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy''. Posner has generally been identified as being politically conservative; however, in recent years he has distanced himself from the positions of the Republican party authoring more [[Liberalism in the United States|liberal]] rulings involving [[Same-sex marriage in the United States|same-sex marriage]] and [[Abortion in the United States|abortion]]. In ''[[A Failure of Capitalism]]'', he has written that the 2008 financial crisis has caused him to question the rational-choice, laissez faire economic model that lies at the heart of his Law and Economics theory. | + | :[[Sexual drive]]s are rooted in biology, but we don't act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived. |
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| + | :Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today's Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M. The first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls, Posner's rational choice theory surprises, explains, predicts, and totally absorbs. | ||
| - | On September 1, 2017, Posner announced that he was retiring from the Seventh Circuit, effective the following day. | ||
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Sex and Reason is a book by Richard Posner.
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- Sexual drives are rooted in biology, but we don't act on them blindly. Indeed, as the eminently readable judge and legal scholar Richard Posner shows, we make quite rational choices about sex, based on the costs and benefits perceived.
- Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today's Sweden and issues from masturbation, incest taboos, date rape, and gay marriage to Baby M. The first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls, Posner's rational choice theory surprises, explains, predicts, and totally absorbs.
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