Becker is a Nobel-prize-winning economist, Posner is a federal circuit judge. They have decided to start a blog that will explore current issues of economics, law, and policy in a dialogic format.

I must have looked worried, but the president smiled.
“You see, Mark,” he continued, using my first name again as if we had been friends for years. “You see, I was not very happy when I heard you say that the idea of holding fair elections in Congo in si