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http://www.tnr.com/article/how-i-became-keynesian

This is the link to the Posner article. I read it long ago and went over it rather quickly again. I maybe wrong, but it doesn't seem to say anything as strange as what Professor Bostaph writes below. Unless it is one of Judge Posner's actual rulings I know nothing about.

Sumitra Shah
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The thought that if someone is assaulted while walking in a "bad" part of town, Judge Posner will argue that he or she should pay for the urban renewal of the area to stimulate total spending.
Samuel Bostaph, Ph.D.
Champaign, Illinois
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."--Winston Churchill

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