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Greer on Thucydides (part 1)
Via Tyler Cowen (once again), we discovered this beautiful introduction to the work of Thucydides (written up by T. Greer, who blogs at zenpundit.com). Here is an excerpt: Thucydides earned a place at my “internal council” table. A spot has … Continue reading
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A tax on rudeness
Have you noticed how more and more cafes and bakeries are employing the strategy pictured below? But who is acting more rudely? The customer or the business owner? After all, isn’t it just as rude to charge higher prices to … Continue reading
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Why do public officials in D.C. get to run red lights?
File this entry under Third World America, i.e. a country where our laws don’t apply to the most powerful people in our government. We were walking toward Metro Center in Washington D.C. around 11pm when we witnessed a mini-convoy consisting … Continue reading
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Time Out
We won’t be blogging too much during the next few days because we are attending a workshop for law professors in public choice economics at George Mason University.
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Necessity as an ex post exception
Note: this is the second in a series of five posts on the common law doctrine of necessity. In our previous post (9/1), we presented three general theories of the legal doctrine of necessity. Here, we consider the first of … Continue reading
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Three theories of necessity (Post 1 of 5)
In our previous post, we compared and contrasted the standard version of the Trolley Problem with Lon Fuller’s “Case of Speluncean Explorers.” Another possible commonality between both hypotheticals is the legal theory of necessity. Since both cases involve thought experiments that present … Continue reading
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