{"id":4074,"date":"2014-01-21T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2014-01-22T09:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:03:39","slug":"eamonn-butler-on-daniel-hannan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/eamonn-butler-on-daniel-hannan\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Butler on Daniel Hannan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rush covered this from Dr. Butler today.\u00a0 I had the good fortune to have a class with Dr. Butler at Hillsdale, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.<\/p>\n<div>Published on <em>Adam Smith Institute<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\">http:\/\/www.adamsmith.org<\/a>)<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Written by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\/authors\/dr-eamonn-butler-0\">Dr. Eamonn Butler<\/a> [2]<\/strong> | Monday 20 January 2014<\/p>\n<div>I was struck by a passage in Daniel Hannan&#8217;s new book How We Invented Freedom And Why It Matters. As a UK Member of the European Parliament, he is always asking other MEPs why they think new rules are needed, in banking, working hours, herbal remedies and much else. As he says:&#8221;The response is always the same: &#8216;But the old system was unregulated!&#8217; The idea that absence of regulation might be a natural state of affairs is seen as preposterous. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamsmith.org\/blog\/regulation-industry\/hannan-law-and-innovation\" target=\"_blank\">continue<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rush covered this from Dr. Butler today.\u00a0 I had the good fortune to have a class with Dr. Butler at Hillsdale, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Published on Adam Smith Institute (http:\/\/www.adamsmith.org) Written by Dr. Eamonn Butler [2] | Monday 20 January 2014 I was struck by a passage in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,11,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-freedom","7":"category-planning","8":"category-zoning","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}