Legal System
An Economic Analysis of the Norris-LaGuardia Act, the Wagner Act, and the Labor Representation Industry
Economists have been relatively silent about the legislation from the 1930’s which supports unionism and collective bargaining in the United
How Philosophical Errors Impede Freedom
That philosophic ideas count is no news to Austrian economists, whose economic theories rest on conceptual analyses of action and value.
Coase and Demsetz on Private Property Rights
In his seminal work, “The Problem of Social Cost,” Coase held that in cases of private property right disputes involving what have been
Those “Impossible Citizens”: Civil Resistants in 19th Century New England
Most libertarians view civil disobedience or resistance to the State differently than members of the general public.
King on Punishment: A Comment
One thing I learned from Professor King’s paper is that he and I are far less in agreement on punishment theory than I had anticipated.
Fishkin on Nozick’s Absolute Rights
In his recent work, Tyranny and Legitimacy, James Fishkin advances an argument against Roben Nozick’s theory of, what Fishkin calls, “a
Hayek and Political Order: The Rule of Law
We might assume from the title of Hayek’s earliest comprehensive treatment of the subject that the “rule of law” would appear as
Comment on Smith
A paper reviewing George Smith’s article “Justice Entrepreneurship in A Free Market” by Steven Strasnick.
Authority: H.L.A. Hart and the Problem with Legal Positivism
The major claim in this paper is that there is a distinct ambiguity in the way in which H. L. A.