Volume 10  Number 3  •  Winter 2006

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In this issue...

Defining Disease: The Gold Standard of Disease versus the Fiat Standard of Diagnosis
By Thomas S. Szasz

The Monopoly Nonproblem: Taking Price Discrimination Seriously
By Stephen Shmanske

Adoption of State Lotteries in the United States, with a Closer Look at Illinois
By Jonathan J. Bean, Donald W. Gribbin

An Ancient Stateless Civilization: Bronze Age India and the State in History
By Thomas J. Thompson

Who Says Money Can’t Buy Happiness?
By Dwight R. Lee

Francis Wayland: Preacher-Economist
By Laurence M. Vance

Watchman, Who Watches Thee? Donors and Corruption in Less-Developed Countries
By Salim Rashid

Michael Walzer on Just War Theory’s “Critical Edge”: More Like a Spoon Than a Knife
By Laurie L. Calhoun

Privatization and Piratization in Post-Communist Russia
By Yuri N. Maltsev

On Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations”: A Philosophical Companion
By Samuel Fleischacker
Reviewed by James R. Otteson Jr.

Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899–2000
By Marcelo Bucheli
Reviewed by Carlos Sabino

America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
By Claes G. Ryn
Reviewed by Christopher Preble

The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
By Andrew J. Bacevich
Reviewed by Edward A. Olsen

Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred
By John Lukacs
Reviewed by Jude Blanchette

Fear: The Foundation of Every Government’s Power
By Robert Higgs