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