Archive for Sylvester Petro
Social Security, The Welfare State, And Market
Mr. Petro is Director of The Institute for Law and Policy Analysis, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Trustee Emeritus of FEE. This essay is an extension of his remarks at the regional meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in Rio de Janeiro, September 1993. While old-line Communists in the Russian parliament strive to abort the market [...]
1Apr1994 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedHuman Rights, Animal Rights, and Friends of the Earth
Mr. Petro is Director of The Institute for Law and Policy Analysis, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Trustee Emeritus of FEE. For some human beings, the urge to move from one state of being to another expresses itself in turning over; for others, in productive activity. The first of these responses to uneasiness is normally neutral, [...]
1Mar1992 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedHuman Rights, Animal Rights, and Friends of the Earth
Mr. Petro is Director of The Institute for Law and Policy Analysis, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Trustee Emeritus of FEE. For some human beings, the urge to move from one state of being to another expresses itself in turning over; for others, in productive activity. The first of these responses to uneasiness is normally neutral, [...]
1Feb1992 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedKnowledge-Processing, Spontaneous Order, and the Free Market
Dr. Petro is Director of The Institute for Law and Policy Analysis, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Trustee Emeritus of FEE. I hope with this to spoil the fun they are having in the groves of academe with the ideas about , knowledge and “spontaneous order” that Friedrich Hayek has emphasized so much over the years. [...]
1Apr1991 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: A Basic History of the United States (five volumes) by Clarence B. Carson.
Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. • 1986 • 78 pp. • $7.95 paperback A Basic History of the United States (five volumes) by Clarence B. Carson. I. The Colonial Experience, 1607-1774 (1984) 184 pages II. The Beginning of the Republic, 1775-1825 (1984) 262 pages III. The Sections [...]
1Mar1987 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Antitrust Policy: the Case for Repeal by D. T. Armentano
Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. • 1986 • 78 pp. • $7.95 paperback Dr. Petro is the author of The Labor Policy of the Free Society and numerous other scholarly books and articles. This little book covers a lot of ground, thinly, of course, for there is only so much you can do in 78 pages, [...]
1Mar1987 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedDo Antitrust Laws Preserve Competition?
Dr. Petro is author of The Labor Policy of the Free Society and numerous other scholarly books and articles. He is Research Professor of Law at Baylor University. An Informal seminar discussion at The Foundation for Economic Education was subsequently compressed into this article first published in the October 1957 Freeman. The antitrust laws are [...]
1Apr1981 | Sylvester Petro | 1 comment | ContinuedA Strategy for the War of Ideas
Why scholarly books are the best ammunition in the struggle for the truth about freedom.
1Jun1979 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedUnemployment, Unions and Inflation: Of Causation and Necessity
Why unions must cause inflation if they are to survive in present form under existing policies and laws.
1Jul1976 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedCompulsory Public-Sector Bargaining: The Dissolution of Social Order
Implications of the idea that government employees may strike at will against their employer.
1Aug1975 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedCompetition, Monopoly, and the Role of Government
Why government should quit trying to promote competition by means of the antitrust laws.
1Feb1974 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economic-Power Syndrome
Exploding the popular myth that business has a coercive power to impose its will upon consumers.
1Apr1972 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Law School and Legal Training
How legal training and legal systems relate to the survival and the progress of the free society.
1Jun1971 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedSeparation of Powers and the Labor Act: 3. Judicial Courts vs. Administrative Courts
The Constitutional arrangement of the judiciary functions of government makes the difference between the rule of law and control by dictatorial whim.
1Sep1968 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedSeparation of Powers and the Labor Act: 2. "Expertise," Separation of Powers, and Due Process
Neither the President nor an administrative agency can better represent the public in matters of policy than can Congress.
1Aug1968 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedSeparation of Powers and the Labor Act: 1. Congressional Policies vs. Labor Board Policies
An expert analysis of the forfeiture of Congressional legislative power to an executive agency – the National Labor Relations Board.
1Jul1968 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | ContinuedCompetition, Unions, and Antitrust
When an outstanding authority on labor policy as well as antitrust legislation covers both topics in one article, it runs long; but we thought you’d want it in one piece rather than serialized.
1Jul1964 | Sylvester Petro | 0 comments | Continued-
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