Independent Review articles from June 2005

Independent Review archives from June 2005

The people's romance: why people love government (as much as they do).
June 22, 2005... In 1995, the annual meeting of the American Economic Association included a plenary session about domestic policy issues. One of the panelists was the Nobel laureate MIT economist Robert Solow. In the course of his remarks, Solow said that he...

Liberty, markets, and environmental values: a Hayekian defense of free-market environmentalism.
June 22, 2005... In recent years, the development of free-market environmentalism has marked a major advance in the relationship between the classical-liberal tradition and the challenge to individualist institutions presented by the modern environmental...

Islam and the institutions of a free society.
June 22, 2005... It has often been claimed that Islam threatens the values and institutions of free societies. The brutal destruction of the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon--two foremost symbols of the West--on September 11, 2001, seemed to...

The communicative character of capitalistic competition: a Hayekian response to the Habermasian challenge.
June 22, 2005... Politics steps in to fill the functional gaps opened when other mechanisms of social integration are overburdened.... In filling in for social processes whose problem-solving capacities are overtaxed, the political process solves the same kind...

Sunstein on rights.(CONTROVERSY)(Cass Sunstein)
June 22, 2005... In The Second Bill of Rights (2004b), Cass Sunstein, distinguished professor of jurisprudence at the University of Chicago, argues that economic security should be made a governmentally protected right, along with the right to own property and...

Confusing rights: a reply to Hocutt.(human rights)
June 22, 2005... On January 11, 1944, Fraklin Delano Roosevelt delivered one of the most influential speeches of the twentieth century. With victory in World War II on the horizon, he contended that "the one supreme objective for the future," the objective for...

Freedom and the burden of proof: Randy E. Barnett's new book on the constitution.(Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty)(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... We cannot believe that construction a sound one, which indulges every reasonable presumption against the citizen, when the legislature deals with his rights, and gives him the benefit of every reasonable doubt, when his life and liberty are in...

The Euro as Politics.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... The Euro as Politics By Pedro Schwartz London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2004. Pp. 214, 12.50 [pounds sterling] paperback. Pedro Schwartz's past contributions to the economics of European monetary integration stand out for clarity,...