No, this is not a post about the Sherman Antitrust Act or the FTC. It's about the game Monopoly, and how conventional wisdom about the game's origins can be misleading. Two different inventors According to the book The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal...
Month: March 2022
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Municipal law has been around since medieval times
Municipal law—those laws relating to a city, as opposed to a state, nation or many nations— can be traced to medieval times. As far as we can ascertain the city of Freiburg im Breisgau was one of the first urban areas in Europe to institute municipal laws. These laws...
What is a referendum, anyway?
You hear it all the time; that a school board is trying to pass a referendum. You see it on your voting slip. People might ask you, are you for the referendum or against it? Some of us are profoundly involved in the referendum process. To us, it can be a real...