Independent Review articles from June 1999

Independent Review archives from June 1999

Liberty and Feminism.
June 22, 1999... What is the relationship between the stares of women and the cause of liberty in modern times? The very tone of the question may suggest the anachronistic nature of this article. After all, the major battles over the stares of women in the...

After Kyoto: A Global Scramble for Advantage.
June 22, 1999... The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is generally viewed as having set carbon emission reduction goals for the developed world for the purpose of avoiding global warming, a tragedy of the commons.(1) But instead of avoiding the plaguing free-rider problem...

Twenty Years after Humphrey-Hawkins.
June 22, 1999... An Assessment of Fiscal Policy The combination of the Great Depression and the Keynesian revolution stripped most economists and politicians of their belief in the stability of the private economy and legitimized the use of stabilization...

The Ways of John Gray.
June 22, 1999... A Libertarian Commentary In writing about classical liberal ideas and libertarian reforms, John Gray uses various terms. Besides "classical liberalism" and "libertarianism," he uses "neo-liberalism," "market liberalism," "paleo-liberal,"...

Doomsday Every Day.
June 22, 1999... Sustainable Economics, Sustainable Tyranny What will be the Clinton "legacy" is an intriguing question that comes up in various contexts. Certainly there have been unprecedented political and sexual scandals. The last American...

On Treating Like Cases Alike.
June 22, 1999... Idealism, intelligence, and importance are a rare combination. Politics by Principle, Not Interest, the book on "non-discriminatory democracy" by James Buchanan and Roger Congleton, achieves the feat of combining them, though the occasional...

Race Policy in Three American Cities.
June 22, 1999... In the 1960s, America underwent a revolution in race relations, removing all legal obstacles to black advancement. The U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision prohibited racial segregation in schools and, it soon became...

Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-1944.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-1944 By Thomas E. Mahl Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1998. Pp. xiv, 257. $26.95. From 1939 to 1941, Americans engaged in one of the bitterest debates in their...

East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia.(Review)
June 22, 1999... East and West: China, Power, and the Future of Asia By Christopher Patten New York: Times Books/Random House, 1998. Pp. xiv, 304. $25.00. Reviewing Chris Patten's book brings me personal pleasure in several respects. For one, it pleases me...

The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid: A Public Choice Analysis.(Review)
June 22, 1999... The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid: A Public Choice Analysis By Anton D. Lowenberg and William H. Kaempfer Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Pp. 284. $51.50. Ten years ago, I wrote South Africa's War against...

Overcoming Welfare: Expecting More from the Poor and from Ourselves.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Overcoming Welfare: Expecting More from the Poor and from Ourselves By James L. Payne New York: Basic Books, 1998. Pp. xii, 243. $26.50 cloth. Overcoming Welfare, the title of James L. Payne's new book, is as provocative as the change he...

Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970.(Review)
June 22, 1999... Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal Thought, 1776-1970 By Gregory S. Alexander Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp 486. $39.95 cloth. At the outset of his book Commodity and Propriety:...

Etceteras ...
June 22, 1999... Escaping Leviathan? In the terminology made famous by Albert Hirschman, people who are fed up with government have two options: exit and voice. Political scientists and public choice analysts have concentrated heavily on the latter,...