“[Trade licensing] almost inevitably becomes a tool in the hands of a special producer group to maintain a monopoly position at the expense of the rest of the public. There is no way to avoid this result.” WayHandsResultsGroupsSpecialPositionToolsTradeProducersExpensesMonopolyLicensing Author:Milton Friedman
“In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.” MenRunningAgeTodayBoysGroupsMiddleMastersCivilizationIntellectualFellowsTradeMedicinePatternsLawyerTricksFancyPriestsJealousFellow ManCompetenceMiddle AgesPseudoGuardingAutocracyHocus PocusPseudo Intellectuals Author:Fred Rodell
“Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has actively encouraged faith-based education, and therefore given a megaphone to religious voices and fundamentalists.” GovernmentChristianGivenVoiceChurchReligiousGroupsAtheismTradeUnionsInstituteChristian ChurchTrade UnionsFaith BasedInstitutes Author:A.C. Grayling
“When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.” SocialDealsAttentionViolenceGroupsInvolvedDrugConcernTradeCracks80sGangCocaineFlareSocial GroupsFlare Up Author:Meda Chesney-Lind
“It is not possible to starve an organised terrorist group because it is number one a state, so it levies taxation inside the territory that is controlled by Islamic State. But also the activity, for example the smuggling of oil, is taking place in an area which is a war zone. So of course people will buy that oil because they don't have any alternative. So even if we wanted to stop that kind of trade, it will be very, very difficult to do that.” PeopleIfsKindWarStatesWantedCoursesDifficultNumbersGroupsExampleActivityAreasTradeOilTerroristAlternativesIslamicZoneControlledTerritoryTaxationOrganisedIslamic StateWar ZonesSmugglingTerrorist Groups Author:Loretta Napoleoni
“Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.” WantedLawReligiousGroupsEconomicResourcesTradeImpactConservativeAccessSpheresSecularIncentivesMobilityFamily Law Author:Zainab Salbi