Iron law

The term iron law is derived from Goethe's "great, eternal iron laws" in his poem Das Göttliche, (On The Divine) and may refer to:

• Hoffman's iron law, regarding speaker system design
• Iron Law (painting), a 1984 painting by Odd Nerdrum
• Iron law of population, from Thomas Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
• Iron law of wages, from Ferdinand Lassalle's Subsistence theory of wages (mid 19th century)
• Iron law of oligarchy, from Michels' Political Parties
• Iron law of processor performance, posited by Joel Emer
• Iron law of prohibition, from Cohen's How the Narcs Created Crack
• Iron law of bureaucracy, from Jerry Pournelle
• Operation Iron Law, a military operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces in March 2011

See also

• Iron cage