Public Intellectuals A Study of Decline With a New Preface and Epilogue

"I confess that my first reaction was that this must be a parody of law and economics reasoning. But this book is no parody. And so watching Posner try to apply economic laws to public debate is a bit like watching a Martian trying to use statistics to explain a senior prom. He is able to detect a few crude patterns, but he's missing the fraught complexity of the thing....With his Homo economicus mentality, Posner is at once too idealistic and too cynical. "Posner, Richard A. is the author of 'Public Intellectuals A Study of Decline With a New Preface and Epilogue', published 2003 under ISBN 9780674012462 and ISBN 0674012461.