Ricard Posner, federal judge and pioneer of the allegedly free-market “Law and Economics” movement, calls for a domestic spying agency. Note that Posner dismisses the possible civil liberties objections to this scheme and does not even consider if the federal government has constitutional authority to establish a domestic spying agency. More proof that law and economics, whose major contribution to jurisprudence is the justification of giving legal sanction to violations of private property rights in order to promote a judge’s vision of “efficiency,” can just as, if not more, easily be used to promote statism than promote liberty.

More on Posner at the Mises.org blog.