Independent Review articles from January 2001

Independent Review archives from January 2001

Credit-Information Reporting: Why Free Speech Is Vital to Social Accountability and Consumer Opportunity.
January 1, 2001... A gossiper is someone thought to gossip too much. But everyone gossips to some extent. Everyone chats with coworkers, neighbors, and friends. Gossiping is often part of doing one's job. Gossip serves the vital function of creating...

Eco-Industrial Parks: The Case for Private Planning.
January 1, 2001... An eco-industrial park (EIP) is a community of companies, located in a single region, that exchange and make use of each other's by-products or energy. Currently, EIPs are being promoted as a means of achieving sustainable development....

A Free Market in Kidneys: Efficient and Equitable.
January 1, 2001... More than one thousand Americans die prematurely every year because they cannot get kidney transplants. In addition, more than forty thousand others suffer while waiting for kidney transplants (United Network for Organ Sharing 1999)....

A New Democrat?: The Economic Performance of the Clinton Presidency.
January 1, 2001... When it comes to talk about the Clinton legacy, one question repeatedly asked--if not as often as more awkward alternatives--concerns the president's political philosophy. What kind of a Democrat has Bill Clinton been? It is now part of...

Where Have All the Savings Gone?
January 1, 2001... Ever since Benjamin Franklin wrote "A penny saved is a penny earned," Americans have been taught that saving is a virtue.(1) Having accepted this principle, many economic pundits are concerned by the recent sharp decline in the U.S. personal...

Think Process, Not Ideology.
January 1, 2001... In his recent book, Lawns Order, David Friedman, a professor of law at Santa Clara University, reviews a long list of legal matters ranging across fields as diverse as pollution control, contract law, marriage agreements, and criminal law. His...

Reflections on a Ravaged Century.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Reflections on a Ravaged Century By Robert Conquest New York: Norton, 2000. Pp. 335. $26.95 cloth. "I have suggested elsewhere," writes Robert Conquest, "that a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and...

Limiting Leviathan.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Limiting Leviathan Edited by Donald P. Racheter and Richard Wagner Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp. 272. $95.00 cloth. In his book The Limits of State Action, Wilhelm von Humboldt gives a justly famous description of what may...

The True Size of Government.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * The True Size of Government By Paul C. Light Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999. Pp. ix, 238. $44.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Measuring the size of government is inherently problematic. For example, the usual...

Market Education: The Unknown History.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Market Education: The Unknown History By Andrew J. Coulson New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1999. Pp. X, 471. $54.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. The title of Andrew J. Coulson's book is misleading. The book is far more than an engaging...

Calculating Risks: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous-Waste Policy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Calculating Risks: The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous-Waste Policy By James T. Hamilton and W. Kip Viscusi Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 326. $37.50. If you want to find out what can be learned about...

The Political Economy of Environmental Policy: A Public Choice Approach to Market Instruments.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * The Political Economy of Environmental Policy: A Public Choice Approach to Market Instruments By Bouwe R. Dijkstra Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp. 376. $100.00 cloth. Given the broad nature of this book's rifle, the reader is...

Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe?(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Are Predatory Commitments Credible? Who Should the Courts Believe? By John R. Lott Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 168. $29.00 cloth. In the 1960s and 1970s, the conventional wisdom in the economics of industrial...

Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free Government By Karl-Friedrich Walling Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. Pp. xii, 356. $40.00. According to one of the precious little stories of the founding of the United...

Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917 By Elizabeth Sanders Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 528. $48.00 cloth, $16.00 paper. In Roots of Reform, Elizabeth Sanders sets out to...

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny By Robert Wright New York: Pantheon, 2000. Pp. 435. $27.50 cloth. In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, science writer Robert Wright argues that cultural evolution leads mankind to higher and higher...

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.(Review)
January 1, 2001... * Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community By Robert D. Putnam New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Pp. 541. $26.00 cloth. Robert Putnam's 1995 essay on civic disengagement in the United States ("Bowling Alone:...

Unmitigated Mercantilism.(Export-Import Bank)
January 1, 2001... When my son was growing up, I lived in constant fear that one day he would come to me and ask, "Dad, why do we have an Export-Import Bank?" Fortunately for me, that day never came. If it had, I would have been compelled to make a painful...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2001... In Volume V, Number 2, the article by Jonathan J. Bean, "'Burn, Baby, Burn': Small Business in the Urban Riots of the 1960s," contains on p. 183 a reference to Caplovitz, David. [1967] 1973. The Poor Pay More. The correct dates for that...