Legal System

Hans Hoppe explains why cities exist and how governments destroy them through interventionist politics.

The CEO of Wal-Mart surprised many by calling for an increase in the minimum wage, writes Lew Rockwell. It is a cartelization tactic that uses regulatory violence as a means of competition.

California is having a November 8 special election with nationwide consequences.

Price caps violate the property rights of owners of scarce resources, such as gasoline, writes Chris Westley.

They don't tell you want price to set anymore, writes William Anderson. They tell you not to gouge.

"Anti-mansionization" ordinances, writes Adam Summers, hit at a fundamental right that Americans have long taken for granted: the right to build or buy the biggest home you can afford.

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Laurence Vance has observed three points about the federal government's mandated handicapped parking spaces, as required for every private business.

The continuous invention of new regulatory frauds undermines the gravity of real fraud, writes writes Pierre Lemieux. What we have seen since the beginning of the 21st century looks like a repeat of the witch-hunt of the 1980s.

Is the Mafia like a state that uses violence to enforce its agenda? Or is it more like a private business that specializes in the market provision of security? Robert Murphy reviews a book on the topic.