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The INDEPENDENT REVIEW is the acclaimed interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of political economy and the critical analysis of government policy. Edited by the noted historian and economist, Robert Higgs, The Independent Review is thoroughly researched, peer-reviewed, and based on scholarship of the highest caliber. However, unlike so many other journals, it is also provocative, lucid, and written in an engaging style. Ranging across the fields of economics, political science, law, history, philosophy, and sociology, The Independent Review boldly challenges the politicization and bureaucratization of our world, featuring in-depth examinations of past, present, and future policy issues by some of the world’s leading scholars and experts.
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Recent Featured Articles
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A Classical-Liberal Response to the Crisis of Bioethics
Lauren K. Hall As currently practiced, bioethics is largely irrelevant to those who are affected by new biomedical technology. The bioethics community could recover from this crisis by applying classical-liberal precepts about human nature and absolute power to crucial issues such as patient autonomy, physician responsibility, and human dignity. |
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Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability
George Selgin The present financial crisis shows how central banks can fuel the financial booms that make severe busts possible. Unfortunately, theoretical discussions of central banking badly neglect its role in fostering financial instability, in part because they ignore its history and political origins. |
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Lost Trust: The Real Cause of the Financial Meltdown
Bruce Yandle Accounting standards, credit ratings, and credit-default swaps were created to help facilitate financial transactions by fostering trust. In the run-up to the credit-market freeze of 2008 those assurance mechanisms collapsed under the weight of political and regulatory pressures to aggressively expand homeownership and other policies. |
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Some Costs of the Great War: Nationalizing Private Life
T. Hunt Tooley The casualties of World War I did not end with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Part of the toll was the wars acceleration of the nationalization of private life, a trend that continues to the present day. |
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