All Posts Tagged With: "freedom of contract"
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1May2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedHayek on Closed Shops and Yellow Dogs
Charles Baird is a professor of economics and the director of the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies at California State University at East Bay . In my December 2006 column I discussed some of Hayek’s classical-liberal views on the rule of law and labor unions. In brief, Hayek approved of voluntary unionism based on [...]
1Apr2007 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Is Going on in France?
Pierre Garello is a professor of economics at Aix-Marseille University, France. It is sometime painful for a liberal—I will be using that word in its old, continental, sense—to live in France, especially in southern France: so much light, so many beauties given by nature, and at the same time so much wealth wasted! Riots; strikes; blockage [...]
1Oct2006 | Pierre Garello | 0 comments | ContinuedBelt and Braces in the Labor Market
Like every exchange, the exchange of labor for money is protected, as it were, by a belt, the contract. Labor, it is argued, must additionally be protected by the braces of justification. In even plainer English, this means that in order to dismiss a worker, an employer cannot simply rely on the contract telling him that he can do so by giving notice that will, so to speak, unbuckle the belt. He must also contrive to unbutton the braces by dealing with a requirement of justification.
1Jun2006 | Anthony de Jasay | 0 comments | ContinuedShould Professors Be Allowed to Unionize?
A current dispute at a liberal-arts college in Wisconsin prompts me to ask whether professors should be allowed to unionize. For many years I have been interested in questions of labor law and probably would have been interested in this dispute even if it did not happen to involve my alma mater. Carroll College is [...]
1Mar2006 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedPlaying by the Rules
During the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Bill Clinton lyrically and repeatedly praised Americans “who play by the rules.” He did so to indicate that under a Clinton presidency, unlike under the Reagan-Bush regime, such people would not be cheated and harmed by people who break the rules. I was unaware then (as I remain now) [...]
1Sep2004 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobalization and Free Trade
Freedom of trade is really a very simple concept. Each individual should be at liberty to buy from and sell to whomever he wishes on mutually agreed-upon terms. Whether the partners to this trade live next door to each other or are separated by thousands of miles should make absolutely no difference to the logic [...]
1Apr2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 6 comments | ContinuedPlain Vanilla Liberty
Karen Selick is an attorney in Ontario, Canada, and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Her Web site is www.karenselick.com. Copyright 2000. The Ontario Court of Appeal made headlines, and rightly so, when it decided recently that epileptic Terry Parker has a constitutional right to use marijuana as medicine. While this was a big step forward [...]
1May2001 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedConstitutional Protection of Economic Liberty
Norman Barry, a contributing editor of Ideas on Liberty, is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). The Supreme Court has been deliberately neglectful of traditional American economic liberties. With the exception of some [...]
1Nov2000 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Fall and Rise of Freedom of Contract
This is a book about a turning of the tide. The tide in question is the intellectually important question of how society will treat contracts. Once a pillar of the common law and a cornerstone of the American legal system, by the 1970s the idea that people should be free to contract as they choose [...]
1Oct2000 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedTrade and the Rise of Freedom
Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. This is adapted from a paper presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference on “’The History of Liberty” at Auburn University, January 29, 2000. It is no exaggeration to say that trade is the keystone of modern civilization. As Murray Rothbard wrote, “The [...]
1Jun2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 2 comments | ContinuedDemocracy Would Doom Hong Kong
John Wenders teaches economics at the University of Idaho. There is an important lesson to be learned from the Hong Kong economic miracle, the destiny of which is now in the hands of China. Too bad most commentators have missed it completely. The lesson is simple. This small patch of rocky land, devastated by war [...]
1Jan1998 | John T. Wenders | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerican Labor Law–Bad and Still Getting Worse
One of the great blunders of American history was the New Deal decision to institute a legal framework for labor relations that did away with the older common law rules of contract, property, and tort that applied equally to all parties, replacing them with a highly coercive, asymmetrical scheme intended to help labor union leaders [...]
1May1997 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | Continued-
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