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Polycentric Law in a New Century
by Tom W. Bell, former director of telecommunications and technology studies at the Cato Institute and current assistant professor at the Chapman School of Law and coeditor of Regulators' Revenge.
Humans cannot live together without some sort of law. As F.A. Hayek noted, society can exist "only if by a process of selection rules have evolved which lead individuals to behave in a manner which makes social life possible."

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President's Message: Will the Constitution Rise with Newt's Fall?
"He lied." So said a close adviser to then-Speaker Newt Gingrich when I asked him how in the world Gingrich justified telling the media on the day of the infamous budget agreement that having the federal government fund 100,000 new public school teachers was "good for America."

To Be Governed...
A collection of humorous quotes from around the nation.

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Tom Bethell on property rights; Alan Kors on thought police

The failure of telecom deregulation; China's future

Studies on impeachment, union violence, free trade, Social Security


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