Anthony G. Stair

Anthony G. Stair is an economics professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland.

Articles

Bureaucracy, Legal Immunity, and Prosecutorial Abuse

05/25/2019 Mises Wire William L. Anderson Anthony G. Stair

By making government prosecutors nearly invulnerable to legal accountability, the courts have unleashed a situation which F.A. Hayek described as one in which “the worst get on top.”

Protected Lying: How the Legal Doctrine of “Absolute Immunity” Has Created a “Lemons Problem” in American Criminal Courts

08/27/2018 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics William L. Anderson Anthony G. Stair

How the legal doctrine of prosecutorial immunity creates a “lemons” problem in criminal courts through moral hazard.

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