Eric A. Posner

Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should—indeed, must—directly address both issues together. However, this would be a serious mistake. By dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, such an approach would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative...

Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for all. Many blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking on its head. With a new foreword by Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier, as...

As President, Donald Trump has made a habit of undermining democratic institutions. Is this the new normal? In The Demagogue's Playbook, Eric A. Posner argues that Trump falls within a tradition of American political personalities who have used the language of exploitation and grievance to amass power—and, in many cases, were quite popular in their time. From Andrew Jackson to...