Independent Review articles from March 1997

Independent Review archives from March 1997

The case against psychiatric coercion.
March 22, 1997... "To commit violent and unjust acts, it is not enough for a government to have the will or even the power; the habits, ideas, and passions of the time must lend themselves to their committal." --Alexis de Tocqueville (1981, 297) ...

Does "existence value" exist?: environmental economics encroaches on religion.
March 22, 1997... In Encounters with the Archdruid, John McPhee (1971) relates a discussion he had with David grower, regarded by McPhee and many others as the leading environmentalist of our time. Brower is talking about the real meaning of wilderness. He...

Was Locke a liberal? (John Locke)
March 22, 1997... For more than thirty years social scientists have been debating the relative influence of two ideological "languages," liberalism and republicanism, on past periods and important literary productions. Modern communitarians vie with...

Entrepreneurship and coastal resource management.
March 22, 1997... Many environmental problems along the coast are fundamentally no different from those in the interior parts of the country. Congestion, noise, and air and water pollution concern Dallas and Kansas City as much as they do Myrtle Beach or Miami....

Regime uncertainty: why the Great Depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war.
March 22, 1997... "There have been endless analyses of individual economic policies; there has been little attention to changes in policy regimes." --PETER TEMIN (1989, 134) The Great Depression is one of the most studied topics in American economic...

The Political Economy of Socialism.
March 22, 1997... In his inaugural lecture at the London School of Economics in 1933, the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek observed that some of his colleagues suffered from "an intense urge to reconstruct the world," which caused them profound dissatisfaction....

The Theory of Value, Capital and Interest: A New Approach.
March 22, 1997... In his inaugural lecture at the London School of Economics in 1933, the Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek observed that some of his colleagues suffered from "an intense urge to reconstruct the world," which caused them profound dissatisfaction....

Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems.
March 22, 1997... By Svetozar Pejovich Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. Pp. x, 231. $84.00 cloth. In his Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994) Donald McCloskey wrote affectionately of the Good Old Chicago...

The Limits of Public Choice: A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics.
March 22, 1997... By Lars Udehn New York: Routledge, 1996. Pp. xi, 447. $89.95 cloth, $25 paper. The time is right for a book exploring the limits of public choice. The field has grown enormously in personnel, domain, and influence. From humble origins as a...

A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution.
March 22, 1997... By Theodore Draper New York: Times Books, 1996. Pp. xiv, 544. $35.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. Theodore Draper has a well-deserved reputation for producing excellent histories. He received the Herbert Feis Award for Nonacademically Affiliated...

Democracy and International Trade: Britain, France, and the United States, 1860-1990.
March 22, 1997... By Daniel Verdier Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Pp. xx, 387. $62.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. How should we best discuss interdisciplinary questions? And what role do differing theoretical perspectives have in an analysis that borrows...

The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller: 1888-1910.
March 22, 1997... By James W. Ely Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xii, 248. $49.95 cloth. What better topic for the first volume of a history of the Supreme Court than the Fuller Court? It was, for all intents and purposes, the first...

The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation.
March 22, 1997... By William K. Tabb New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Pp. 414. $19.95 paper. The recognized limitations of neoclassical economics and the desirability of integrating social and cultural factors into economic analysis have spurred much...