Independent Review articles from March 2007

Independent Review archives from March 2007

Adam Smith's roles for government and contemporary U.S. government roles: is the welfare state crowding out government's basic functions?
March 22, 2007

Facts, values, and the burden of proof.
March 22, 2007

The use of knowledge in natural-disaster relief management.
March 22, 2007... More than sixty years ago F. A. Hayek identified the problem of social coordination in his seminal article "The Use of Knowledge in Society": The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the...

The middle class and the Swedish welfare state: how not to measure redistribution.
March 22, 2007

Institutional Review Board mission creep: the common rule, social science, and the nanny state.
March 22, 2007

The rise, fall and rise again of privateers.
March 22, 2007

Chesterton and Belloc: a critique.(PREDECESSORS)(Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton)
March 22, 2007

Doomsters, Evil I's, and tunnel-vision economics.(REFLECTIONS)(negative views about the U.S. economy)
March 22, 2007

Comment on James A. Montanye's "Apotheosis of American Democracy".(CONTROVERSY)
March 22, 2007

Reply to Xavier L. Simon's comment.(CONTROVERSY)
March 22, 2007

Economic and cultural globalization.
March 22, 2007

The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success By Kodney Stark New York: Random House, 2005. Pp. xvi, 28. $25.95 cloth, $15.95 paperback. In recent years, a number of important books have offered a...

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good.(Book review)
March 22, 2007

Politics as Religion.(Book review)
March 22, 2007

Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism Edited by Ira Katznelson and Barry Weingast New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. Pp. viii, 345. $45.00 cloth. Institutions,...