About This Archive

In late 2025, the Becker-Posner Blog was no longer hosted online, and was only available through archives. To avoid this rather cumbersome way of reading their blog, I created this site (with generous assistance from Codex). Rather than attempting to describe the blog myself, I shall defer to the better crafted thoughts of Sebastian Galiani:

The blog was not exactly a debate, nor exactly a collaboration. It was closer to a recurring public seminar between two minds trained in the same intellectual tradition but applying it differently. What makes the archive especially interesting today is that it allows us to see something we rarely observe so clearly in academic writing: how great thinkers reason in real time.

This is an unofficial, non-commercial archival reconstruction of the Becker-Posner Blog, originally maintained by the University of Chicago Law School and authored primarily by Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner.

This site is intended for private study, research, and preservation purposes. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the University of Chicago, the University of Chicago Law School, the estates or representatives of Gary S. Becker, Richard A. Posner, or any other rights-holder.

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If you are a rights-holder and believe any material should not be available here, please contact me and I will promptly review and, where appropriate, remove or restrict access to the relevant material.