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About Butler Shaffer

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Butler Shaffer teaches at the Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938 and Boundaries of Order. Send him mail.

Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System

Butler Shaffer Updated 8/1/2012

Private Property as a Social System Every once in a while, a treatise on libertarian philosophy appears that presages a new way of thinking about politics and economics. Mises's Liberalism, Rothbard's Ethics of Liberty, and Hoppe's Dem...
The Wizards of Ozymandias

Butler Shaffer Updated 7/19/2012

Western Civilization--the American version in particular--is in a very turbulent and, perhaps terminal condition. The sense of civility that helps give meaning to a "civilization" is in full retreat. Butler Shaffer has, over the cour...
In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938

Butler Shaffer Updated 4/5/2011

This extremely important study by Butler Shaffer—professor of law and economist—will change the way you think of the relationship between the state and business. It makes a deep inquiry into the attitudes of business leaders toward competition during...