On the face of it, who can object to the Supreme Court's decision that permits wine consumers to buy directly from out-of-state wineries? This is just the free market at work. The state laws that prohibited the practice were nothing but a legal leftover from prohibition days and a mercantilist privilege granted to politically powerful distributors who thought only of their monopoly.
Presented as part of the Brown Bag Seminar Series. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 12 May 2005.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on May 5, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on April 21, 2005 in Auburn, Alabama.
Apparently, in Bali, one can get the death penalty for importing drugs.
A law school buddy emailed me some comments about some recent developments in eminent domain law, e.g.
Richard Posner here answers, at least in one respect, a question that has long puzzled his critics. Posner again and again declares himself a legal pragmatist.
Recorded at the 2005 Austrian Scholars Conference, Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama.
Let us grant that patents encourage innovation; Stephan Kinsella still wants to know: at what cost?
