All Posts Tagged With: "violence"
Where Does Law Come From?
This article draws from a research project supported by the Earhart Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Independent Institute. The legal scholar Lon Fuller defined law as “the enterprise of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules.” It includes basic rules of conduct as well as institutions or mechanisms for clarifying, changing, [...]
1Dec1997 | Bruce L. Benson | 5 comments | ContinuedWhy Laws Backfire
Ms. Manley is president of Commercial Tenant Real Estate Representation Ltd., Manhattan. Her articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Inc., and the Wall Street Journal. For thousands of years, laws everywhere have backfired. In ancient Babylon, Sumeria, Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome, for instance, price controls promoted not fairness but famine. During the twentieth [...]
1Aug1996 | Marisa Manley | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Virtues of Competition
Competition is a universal and extremely powerful force. Long before we began to record history, man was competing for food, mates, and territory. Later, we found ourselves competing for jobs, resources, customers, victories in athletic contests, and awards in many different fields of human endeavor. Competition in one form or another is inevitable as long [...]
1Jul1996 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedModern Times
Mr. Carolan is Executive Editor of National Review. “By the 1980s, state action had been responsible for the violent or unnatural deaths of over 100 million people, more perhaps than it had hitherto succeeded in destroying during the whole of human history up to 1900.” This one statement has remained with me, and has influenced [...]
1May1996 | Matthew Carolan | 0 comments | ContinuedTerror: Against or By Government?
Mr. Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). Washington is often convulsed by events that have no impact on the rest of America. Not so the Oklahoma City bombing, which, in contrast to so many other actions, dominated nation and capital [...]
1Aug1995 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Mushroom Wars
Drive-by shootings, an abandoned car riddled with bullet holes, a man gunned down before he can pull his .45 caliber pistol. No, it is not gang warfare in an American inner city. These are the mushroom wars in the once peaceful forests of the Northwest. Not so long ago mushroom picking was a somewhat quaint [...]
1Jun1995 | Richard B. Coffman | 0 comments | Continued-
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