Pitfalls of the Classical School of Crime
Economic analysis can be applied to the phenomenon of crime. In the present paper, we will deal with an approach to the economics of crime that is built on the foundations of neoclassical welfare theory.
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On the Abuse of Patents as Economic Indicators
Patents have a long history as a proxy for inventive activity. Although these data lost ground in the early 1960s to other measures of technical innovation, they have once again become fashionable in the last decade.
Causation and Aggression
In the context of legal analysis, one important praxeological doctrine is the distinction between action and mere behavior. The difference between action and behavior boils down to intent.
Review of Fire and Smoke: Government, Lawsuits and the Rule of Law by Michael I. Krauss.
This monograph by Professor Michael Krauss of the George Mason University School of Law is a well-written and accessible critique of the recent government lawsuits against the tobacco and firearms industries.
Review of Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On, by Stuart Banner
In Who Owns the Sky? The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On, UCLA law professor Stuart Banner examines how the United States moved from the ad coelom rule
Toward a Reformulation of the Law of Contracts
Many of the problem areas in the law of contracts stem from the historical fact that the law of contracts has been fashioned out of material that does not fit together logically. Some jurists view contracts as conventions serving to secure people's expectations. These jurists, who support their approach by invoking the allied philosophical traditions of utilitarianism and pragmatism, have tried to make the law of contracts a device to protect parties who rely on promised advantages. Therefore, these jurists want law-enforcement processes to make people live up to the expectations they arouse in others.
The “Right” to a Fair Trial
The right to a fair trial is commonly considered so central to our system of justice and so much a part of our legal heritage that to deny that peo
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.
