All Posts Tagged With: "mutual consent"
Faculty Unions Versus Academic Legitimacy
The faculty at Montana State University in Bozeman will soon vote on whether to unionize. If a majority vote yes, the school will gradually descend into academic mediocrity or worse. The vast majority of unionized faculty in higher education are employed in government colleges and universities. This is because in 1980 the U.S. Supreme Court, [...]
1Jun2008 | Charles W. Baird | 2 comments | ContinuedVindicating Voluntaryism
Voluntaryism. Other than to those who have seriously considered the overwhelming case for liberty in human affairs, the word doesn’t have a very catchy ring. As a result, it would not survive vetting by our modern gamut of political focus groups and public-relations gurus. Yet that was what Englishman Auberon Herbert used to describe and [...]
1Nov2006 | Gary M. Galles | 2 comments | ContinuedDon’t Expect Much From Politics
The older I get and the more I learn from observing politics, the more obvious it is that it’s no way to run a business—or almost anything else, for that matter. The deficiencies, absurdities, and perverse incentives inherent in the political process are powerful enough to frustrate anyone with the best of intentions. It frequently [...]
1Dec2001 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedBastiat: Champion of Economic Liberty
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. When this article first appeared, he was Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics and chairman of the economics department at Hillsdale College in Michigan. The defense of economic liberty has never been an easy task. Adam Smith expressed his own despair at this problem in The Wealth of [...]
1Jun2001 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued-
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