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German court lets off ‘Sharia police’ patrol in Wuppertal – BBC News

A German court rules that Islamists who patrolled a city’s streets as “Sharia police” did not break the law and will not be prosecuted. Nine were arrested in September 2014 after patrolling streets in Wuppertal, western Germany. They wore bright orange jackets with the words “Sharia police”. They told passers-by not to frequent discos, casinos Read More

The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan, Vol. 10 (The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy) – Online Library of Liberty

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1.: The Constitutional Imperative I.: Introduction There is something profoundly unsatisfactory about economists’ introducing their subject matter by reference to the Robinson Crusoe who faces an “economic problem” because he must decide how to allocate his scarce resources (including time) among competing uses. With this introduction, it becomes far too easy to slip from the Read More

Edward Stringham | Private Governance Book Panel

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(Q&A: 55′) Are all of the rules and regulations governing economic activity a product of central planning or legislation? To what extent does privately produced and enforced governance play a role? In his latest book, Edward Stringham argues that much of what is orderly in the economy can actually be attributed to governing mechanisms devised Read More