Topic: Regulation
Quotes
Ludwig Von Mises, Human Action (1949)
- If one wants to correct their manifest unsuitableness and preposterousness by supplementing the first acts of intervention with more and more of such acts, one must go farther and farther until the market economy has been entirely destroyed.#
Roderick Long, “Corporations Versus the Market, or, Whip Conflation Now” (2008)
- When a private entity is granted special governmental privileges, “deregulating” it amounts instead to an increase, not a decrease, in governmental intrusion into the economy.#
Roderick Long, “Regulation: The Cause, Not the Cure, of the Financial Crisis” (2008)
- Attempting to cure an illness by artificially simulating symptoms of health is, literally, voodoo economics.#
Posts
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The Curious Contours of Contractual Freedom: A Cynical Spin on Civil Society
Freedom of contract is not sacrosanct in American legal culture. What is sacrosanct is non-discrimination along several definite lines – most importantly, religion, race, and gender. Sometimes these norms conflict, as in the multitude of laws governing employment and labor. But sometimes they overlap – particularly on the question of freedom of . . .
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The Apparatus Cost of Net Neutrality
Net neutrality is a winning issue. Not only that, but people are likely to ignore libertarian arguments on the issue because it sounds a lot like what they love about the rule of law. General rules, non-discrimination, etc. The best argument against it is that the enforcement of net neutrality comes . . .
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Apparatus Cost
“The art of Economics,” says Henry Hazlitt, “consists in looking not merely at the immediate, but at the longer effects of any act or policy.” This is true not only for the economic effects of policy, but also for the political effects of policy. These longer effects in the political . . .