Profiles

State-centered ideas around crime focus on imprisonment and punishment. But a restitution-centered model would be much better for victims.

Regulation is simply the way in which self-interested public officials provide benefits to self-interested individuals who form interest groups. This is as true in land use as in anything else.

Our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm.

Like many libertarians, I used to accept without question the idea that contracting out for government services was a good idea. After all, it puts production back into the hands of relatively efficient private producers. However, after reviewing the literature on contracting out for law...