Independent Review articles from March 2004

Independent Review archives from March 2004

Is there really a fatherhood crisis?
March 22, 2004... During the past decade, family issues such as marriage and fatherhood have rocketed to the top of the domestic-policy agenda. The past two presidential administrations, along with numerous local governments, have responded to the continuing...

The Republican road not taken: the foreign-policy vision of Robert A. Taft.
March 22, 2004... First elected to the Senate in 1938, Robert A. Taft represented Ohio from 1939 until his death in 1953. Although Taft was defeated for the Republican presidential nomination three times, in 1940, 1948, and 1952, he was universally acknowledged...

Externalities, conflict, and offshore lands: resolution through the institutions of private property.
March 22, 2004... How should coastal ocean lands be used? The answer to this question has been the source of intense political and legal conflict in recent decades. The ostensible cause of the conflict is the external costs (externalities) associated with...

News media incentives, coverage of government, and the growth of government.
March 22, 2004... Both the form and the content of the news industry changed dramatically in the twentieth century. Americans at the end of the nineteenth century received news from newspapers that, although no longer funded by political parties, typically were...

Individual unemployment accounts.
March 22, 2004... The Current Unemployment Insurance Compensation System The current unemployment insurance system's principal objective is to provide unemployed workers with temporary financial assistance to tide them over while they search for work...

My time with Karl Marx.(Memoir & Critique)
March 22, 2004... My path to Karl Marx was through my work on the Soviet economy. Sovietologists had difficulty comprehending the organizational nature of the Soviet economy because they were uninformed about its Marxian aspirations. Sovietologists regarded...

Global warming and its dangers.(Reflections)
March 22, 2004... We admit at the outset that we know little about the science of global warming. How much, if at all, the earth is warming; whether any warming is a trend or the result of random variations in global weather patterns; and, if a warming trend...

Feser on Nozick.("On Nozick")(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Edward Feser's On Nozick (Toronto: Wadsworth, 2004) is an excellent and pleasing brief introduction to the political thought of Robert Nozick as that thought is embodied in Nozick's now classic Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). The book has...

Out of Bounds, Out of Control: Regulatory Enforcement at the EPA.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... * Out of Bounds, Out of Control: Regulatory Enforcement at the EPA By James V. DeLong Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002. Pp. xi, 111. $8.95 paperback. Author James V. DeLong, a lawyer by training, understands the primary importance to...

What's Yours Is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... What's Yours Is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism By Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. Washington D.C.: Cato Institute, 2003 Pp. 100. $12.95 paperback. What's Yours Is Mine is a small book that makes one basic...

Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use By Jacob Sullum Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 2003 Pp. 340. $25.95 cloth. I seldom read books about drug policy. After just a little exposure to the genre, one finds again and again the same dates, the same...

The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies By Neil Fligstein Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 274. $70.00 cloth, $17.95 paperback. In the past two decades,...