Today's topic is a rather extraordinary short essay, which is actually was originally a speech and was Transcribed verbatim supposedly by someone in the audience. It was given by a man I'd never heard of Lord Molten John Fletcher Molten. And he was an English mathematician barrister judge and member parliament. He got the Knight commander of the order of bath in 1915, the night Graham crossed the order of the British Empire in 1917. The Italian, France, the order of Leopold in Belgium and was the last person to receive the order ofThe white eagle for the collapse of the Russian monarchy taken from Wikipedia.
Civilization and the pleasantness of everyday life depend on unwritten rules. Early in the 20th century, an English mathematician and government official, Lord Moulton, described complying with these rules as "obedience to the unenforceable"--the area of personal choice that falls between illegal acts and complete freedom. Listen as economist Michael Munger talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the power and challenge of the unenforceable.