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Richard A. Posner plays a totemic role within law and economics, and not only. His scholarship is so wide to the point that it is quite impossible to face any topic without finding a seminal contribution by him. This introduction presents a special issue devoted to Posner’s scientific and academic work.
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A couple of them have also been published in this journal (see Posner 1995).
Almost 800 citations achieved by October 2015 (source: Google Scholar).
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Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. The judge, the academic and the public intellectual: the totemic scholarship of Richard A. Posner. Eur J Law Econ 43, 389–392 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10657-017-9558-3
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