Signaling Solemnity for Private Law

Commenting on the Berlin Wall and political institutions, Robin Hanson notes why private law doesn’t work so well in the United States: It seems to me that the main problem is trying to invoke private law via small clauses on page 20 of 30+ page contracts – most folks feel reasonably justified in not always [...]

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Bush, The Wall and Dragos

Paul Hollander writes an excellent piece in the Washington Post about the momentous events of November 1989.  Hollander escaped the communist hegemony in 1956, and he writes about the oppression and murder committed by the statist regimes of the last century. While greatly concerned with communism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Americans — [...]

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