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Number 2

Fall

1996

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Predatory Public Finance and the Origins of the War on Drugs, 1984-1989

Bruce L. Benson, David W. Rasmussen

Information Asymmetries in Health Services

Stephen Shmanske

New Deal Nemesis: The “Old Right” Jeffersonians

Sheldon Richman

Rent Seeking Never Stops: An Essay on Telecommunications Policy

James A. Montanye

Book Reviews

An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought

By Murray N. Rothbard
Reviewed by
Paul Heyne

The War Against Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy to a New Social Contract

By Nicholas N. Kittrie
Reviewed by
Sigmund Knag

Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of American Corporate Finance

By Mark J. Roe
Reviewed by
John G. Matsusaka

Public Goods and Private Communities: The Market Provision of Social Services

By Fred Foldvary
Reviewed by
L. Lynne Kiesling

State and Party in America’s New Deal

By Kenneth Finegold and Theda Skocpol
Reviewed by
John Joseph Wallis

Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American “Neutrality” in World War II

By Nicholas John Cull
Reviewed by
Justus Drew Doenecke

The End of the Republican Era

By Theodore J. Lowi
Reviewed by
Richard Young, Paul W. Pitkin

The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Criminal Justice in the Commons

By David W. Rasmussen and Bruce L. Benson
Reviewed by
Mark Thornton

Etceteras

Etceteras . . .

Robert Higgs

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