by Henry Oliner | Apr 11, 2011 | Law
It is not considered enough that law should be just, it must be philanthropic. It is not sufficient that it should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive exercise of his faculties, applied to his physical, intellectual, and moral development; it is...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 10, 2011 | Law
It would be impossible to introduce into society a greater evil than… the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree, but the safest way to make them respected is to make them...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 13, 2009 | Business, Economics, Politics
The cash for clunkers is a clear example of the economic fallacy known as Bastiat’s fallacy. We see the results of the expenditure- a sharply increase in auto sales- but we ignore the real cost of the program because we do not see it. That $4500 spent on...
