Independent Review articles from September 2004

Independent Review archives from September 2004

The diffusion of prosperity and peace by globalization.
September 22, 2004... Capitalism and economic freedom promote peace. Globalization can be understood as a process of market expansion and market integration, as the universalization of capitalism. After a short discussion of the political economy of globalization, I...

An appropriate ethical model for business and a critique of Milton Friedman's thesis.
September 22, 2004... In 1970, when interest in the ethics of business was increasing to a degree that would soon cause the emergence of a whole new discipline, a controversial essay on corporate responsibility, "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase...

Environmental turning points, institutions, and the race to the top.
September 22, 2004... The phrase environmental turning point took on a new meaning in 1991 when Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger (1991, 1995) unveiled the first empirical Environmental Kuznets Curves (EKCs). As shown in figure 1, a hypothetical EKC for sulfur dioxide,...

The market for philosophers: an interpretation of Lucian's satire on philosophy.
September 22, 2004... I can't imagine how you can think philosophy and wine are similar--except in this one respect, that philosophers sell their learning as shopkeepers their wares; and most of them dilute it, too, and defraud customers. --Lucian with the...

The career of Robert Moses: city planning as a microcosm of socialism.(Cameo)
September 22, 2004... Robert Moses was the dominant figure in shaping the built environment of New York City and New York State for more than three decades, from roughly the 1930s to the 1960s. Mayors and governors feared to defy him. The public works that he was...

Nature and freedom.(Reflections)
September 22, 2004... It's strange how the words we use to describe a thing can radically change our attitude toward it. The label "previously owned" makes a used car seem, well, less used, and the "life insurance" you buy today will pay, after all, only when you...

The Puzzle of Hayek.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... The Commanding Heights, the award-winning PBS series, chronicles the ideological battles of the twentieth century. At the beginning of that century, there was a liberal world order. Classical liberal ideas still prevailed in the West. With the...

A history of force: exploring the worldwide movement against habits of coercion, bloodshed, and mayhem.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A History of Force: Exploring the Worldwide Movement Against Habits of Coercion, Bloodshed, and Mayhem By James L. Payne Sandpoint, Id.: Lytton Publishing, 2004. Pp. vii, 296. $23.95 paperback. We have just emerged from a century that...

Another Century of War?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Another Century of War? By Gabriel Kolko New York: New Press, 2002. Pp. x, 165. $15.95 paperback. Gabriel Kolko's Another Century of War? is a sequel to his Century of War: Politics, Conflicts, and Society Since 1914 (New York: New...

Images of Terror: what we can and can't know about terrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know about Terrorism By Philip Jenkins New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2003. Pp. x, 227. $24.95 paperback. Philip Jenkins, the Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at...

A Low Dishonest Decade: The great powers, Eastern Europe, and the economic origins of World War II, 1930-1941.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... A Low Dishonest Decade: The Great Powers, Eastern Europe, and the Economic Origins of World War II, 1930-1941 By Paul N. Hehn New York and London: Continuum, 2002. Pp. 560. $35.00 cloth. The causes and outbreak of World War II have...

Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work By George Tsebelis Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. 320. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paperback. In Veto Players, George Tsebelis advances a grand thesis. Simply put, all...

The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid By Bertin Martens, Uwe Mummert, Peter Murrell, and Paul Seabright Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. v, 201. $65.00 cloth. Foreign aid has been under a great deal of scrutiny lately,...

The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Poverty of Welfare: Helping Others in Civil Society By Michael Tanner Washington, D.C.: Cato Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 212. $15.00. Michael Tanner's new book The Poverty of Welfare does not cover much new ground, but nonetheless it...