Richard Posner

Person · Open Library

Works

27

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1988-02-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

9

Total plays

13

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 63,432x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 59,281x

3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 47,681x

4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

   · 2009 · cited 47,337x

5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,689x

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Quotes

• “Jurisprudence addresses the questions about law that an intelligent layperson of speculative bent — not a lawyer — might think particularly interesting.”
• “If judges are pragmatic, as I think they largely are in our system, it can only be in the everyday sense of the term. But immediately the counterexample of Holmes, a gifted and serious though not systematic philosophical thinker, comes to mind.”
• “I wish in closing to emphasize how little corporate philanthrophy (the practical meaning of “creative capitalism,” a terrible expression that implies nonaltruistic capitalism is uncreative) is actually philanthropic, in the sense of being driven by altruism rather than by profit maximization.”
• “One thing we’ve learned from the economic events of the past two years is that macroeconomics, or at least the part of macroeconomics that studies the business cycle, is a weak field. With only a few exceptions, macroeconomists, including the most illustrious, did not anticipate the current depression.”
• “The importance to economics of the study of institutions is no longer a controversial proposition, thanks in part to the scholarly literature generated by the new institutional economics movement. Institutions are more than organizations – property is an institution, but not an organization – but organizations are an important form of institution and will be the focus of my paper, as it is, to a considerable extent, of the new institutional economics.”
• “This book is written in the conviction that economics is a powerful tool for analyzing a vast range of legal questions but that most lawyers and law students-even very bright ones-have difficulty connecting economic principles to concrete legal problems.”

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