Book reviewed in this article: Don Lavoie and Emily Chamlee-Wright, Culture and Enterprise: The Development, Representation and Morality of Business Daniel F. Spulber (ed.), Famous Fables of Economics: Myths of Market Failures John Plender, A Stake in the Future: A Stakeholding Solution Paul...

The purpose of a constitution should be to restrain governments. The proposed EU constitution does not do that - it provides agendas for government action. There is also no mechanism to facilitate jurisdictional competition. As such, if adopted, it will lead to further centralisation and abuse...