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The Pursuit of Justice: The Law and Economics of Legal Institutions

Public Choice analysis is the application of economic reasoning—principally the idea that human action is primarily self-interested—to questions drawn from politics and government. It was famously described by James Buchanan as “politics without romance.” To date most Public Choice research has focused on the behavior of political actors. Less attention has been paid to the behavior [...]

30Nov2011 | Michael DeBow | 18 comments | Continued

The Age of the Busybody

Busybodies. In an earlier, gentler time, every neighborhood had one. Predominantly but not exclusively female in those days, the local busybody was recognized with ease. Although the verb was mercifully unknown, she micromanaged all PTA meetings, gatherings, sales, and affairs whether or not she was chairman or even occupied a seat on the governing board. [...]

30Nov2011 | Ridgway K. Foley Jr. | 0 comments | Continued

Of Fallible Umpires and Rogue Judges

There is a striking similarity between blown calls by umpires in baseball and blown calls by judges in our legal system. We now know, unambiguously, that umpires make mistakes—sometimes excruciatingly costly ones. According to baseball purists, those mistakes “are part of the game.” Yet there is a rising chorus of calls for Major League Baseball to [...]

22Oct2010 | David N. Laband | 1 comment | Continued

Judges, Empathy, and Bastiat

In case someone hasn’t seen John Hasnas’s important Wall Street Journal op-ed  on why an “empathetic” judge or justice is likely to commit Bastiat’s fallacy of overlooking the “what is not seen,” it is here. “The ‘Unseen’ Deserve Empathy, Too” is well worth reading!

1Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

The Quest for Cosmic Justice offers no big surprises to anyone familiar with Sowell’s work. Its theme of arrogant elites’ tyrannizing ordinary folk has sounded prominently in Sowell’s writings since at least the late 1970s. But the book percolates throughout with ingenious smaller-scale insights that make it well worth reading. By “cosmic justice” Sowell means [...]

1Jul2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

Out of Order by Max Boot

Basic Books • 1998 • 252 pages • $25.00 Max Boot is a journalist and editor at the Wall Street Journal who has made a name for himself (and a lot of enemies) with his articles exposing the despicable practices of plaintiffs’ lawyers who will do almost anything to squeeze money out of “deep pocket” [...]

1Mar1999 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

Liberating the Jury

Nathan Lapp is a dairy farmer and coordinator of the New York Fully Informed Jury Association in Cassadaga, New York. When disputes arise over who has the freedom to do what, fundamental principles of fairness, or “right reason,” as Roman philosopher Cicero phrased it, must come into play.[1] For this task, the founders recommended trial [...]

1Mar1998 | Nathan Lapp | 1 comment | Continued

A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and The Law by Antonin Scalia

Princeton University Press • 997 • 159 pages • $19.95 Jürgen Skoppek is a magistrate on Michigan’s Workers’ Compensation Appellate Commission and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. The fate of our liberties no longer rests in the hands of the voting public, elected legislators, or executive-branch officials. Whatever liberties we are permitted to [...]

1Jan1998 | Jrgen Skoppek | 0 comments | Continued

The Revolution At Ramah

This is the only recorded revolution for more government instead of less The israelites had come on evil times. The Philistines not only had licked them roundly but had also made off with the sacred ark of the covenant. Among the tribesmen everything was at sixes and sevens. The camaraderie of wilderness days was giving [...]

1May1955 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | Continued

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