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Eric A. Posner

University of Chicago legal scholar and, with E. Glen Weyl, co-author of Radical Markets (2018) -- the book whose Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax proposal extends Georgist land-tax logic to property generally.

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Overview

Eric Andrew Posner (born December 5, 1965) is an American legal scholar and the Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he has taught since 1998 after earlier posts at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.[1] He holds a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1991), and is the son of retired federal judge Richard Posner.[1] His scholarship spans international law, contract law, bankruptcy, and law-and-economics, and he briefly served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust at the US Department of Justice beginning in 2022.[1]

For this wiki, Posner's central relevance is as co-author, with economist E. Glen Weyl, of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Princeton University Press, 2018), summarized in full on this wiki's book page.[2] The book's lead proposal, the Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax (popularized on this wiki as the Harberger tax), generalizes the Georgist logic behind the single tax -- that self-assessed, publicly-priced value should be taxed to capture unearned gains -- from land specifically to property and quasi-property more broadly.[2] Posner supplied the book's legal-institutional design work, complementing Weyl's mechanism- design economics.

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  1. "Eric Posner," Wikipedia — used for biographical facts (birth date, Yale B.A./M.A., Harvard J.D. 1991, University of Pennsylvania and University of Chicago faculty appointments, DOJ Antitrust counsel role). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Posner
  2. Eric A. Posner & E. Glen Weyl (2018), Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society, Princeton University Press — used for Posner's authorship role and the COST/Harberger-tax proposal's explicit framing as a generalization of Georgist self-assessment logic. See wiki page.