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Sick Chickens and Blue Buzzards
Hit & Run — Economist Steven Horwitz has a great post at Liberty & Power telling the remarkable story of the Schechter brothers, the Kosher butchers who fought FDR's New Deal all the way to the Supreme Court and won: ...

The Story of the Schechter Poultry Case:
The Volokh Conspiracy — Economist Steven Horwitz has a fascinating post on the history behind the Schechter Poultry case , the 1935 Supreme Court decision that struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act - the most extensive attempt at economic central planning in American history. As I explained in this post , the NIRA established production quotas, price controls, and wage controls for nearly the entire nonagricultural economy, in effect establishing a government-enforced cartel for every industry. The NIRA and related New Deal statutes greatly increased ...