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Imposing Values: An Essay on Liberalism and Regulation
Liberalism comes in two varieties, classical and modern. All liberals support limitations on government power, but modern liberalism favors, while classical liberalism opposes, significant interference with private property rights. N. Scott Arnold’s book on the classical-modern liberal debate focuses on the modern-liberal regulatory agenda, especially employment law (such as collective bargaining rules and antidiscrimination law), health [...]
21Apr2011 | Daniel Shapiro | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Classical Liberals Care about the Rule of Law (And Hardly Anyone Else Does)
In 1776 John Adams declared that America was “a
nation of laws, not men.” Politicians of all persuasions
have used Adams’s phrase ever since to claim
the moral high ground. Such rare agreement among the
political classes, even if only rhetorical, is an indication
of the power of the idea of the rule of law.
Employers Swamped by Good Intentions
One of the hidden costs of regulation is the intellectual burden of keeping up with it. In many cases, finding out what the rules are can be more than a full-time job. Consider the area of employer-employee relations. A few months ago, an odd travel brochure arrived in my mail. It wasn’t printed in four [...]
1Oct1998 | James L. Payne | 1 comment | ContinuedFreedom-for-Labor Day in New Zealand
May 15, 1991, is a day that shall live in glory in the history of the world-wide struggle to free working men and women from the shackles of compulsory unionism. On that date the New Zealand Parliament enacted the Employment Contracts Act (ECA), a piece of legislation that, notwithstanding its two faults, could be used [...]
1Oct1996 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued-
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