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The High Cost of Good Intentions
A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
By John F. Cogan
Reviewed by Lee A. Craig |
The Independent Review
| Fall 2019
The Fifth Risk
Undoing Democracy
By Michael Lewis
Reviewed by Dwight R. Lee |
The Independent Review
| Summer 2019
The Corruption Cure
How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
By Robert I. Rotberg
Reviewed by George R. Crowley |
The Independent Review
| Winter 2017/18
DC Confidential
Inside the Five Tricks of Washington
By David Schoenbrod
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger |
The Independent Review
| Winter 2017/18
Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster
Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship
By Virgil Henry Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, and Laura Grube
Reviewed by Daniel J. Smith |
The Independent Review
| Spring 2017
They Play, You Pay
Why Taxpayers Build Ballparks, Stadiums, and Arenas for Billionaire Owners and Millionaire Players
By James T. Bennett
Reviewed by Raymond D. Sauer |
The Independent Review
| Winter 2013/14
The False Promise of Green Energy
By Roger E. Meiners, Andrew Morriss, William T. Bogart, Andrew Dorchak
Reviewed by Pierre Desrochers |
The Independent Review
| Spring 2012
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy
Edited by Robert Repetto
Reviewed by Robert H. Nelson |
The Independent Review
| Spring 2008
Mega-Projects
The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment
By Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff
Reviewed by Peter Gordon |
The Independent Review
| Spring 2005
Public Spending in the 20th Century
A Global Perspective
By Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht
Reviewed by Thomas E. Borcherding |
The Independent Review
| Spring 2003
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