Free Market Alternatives to Statutory Law
A Case for Free Market Solutions to Socio-Economic Problems and the Abolishment of Compulsory, State-Mandated, Statutory Law
By: Anthony Knittel
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for MGMT 533 Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Bases of Management Practices
Dr. Hamilton
December 20, 2007
Free Market Alternatives to Statutory Law
“The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!” (Bastiat, 1998, p. 1).
Claude Frédéric Bastiat (June 30, 1801 – December 24, 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly. I have invoked Bastiat’s words......
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