Volume 3

Number 2

Fall

1998

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Articles

Is Microsoft a Monopolist?

Richard B. McKenzie, William F. Shughart II

Let’s Toss for It: A Surprising Curb on Political Greed

Sigmund Knag

How Big a Budget Do the People Prefer?

Earl R. Brubaker

Revolutionary Armies, Labor Unions, and Free-Riders: Organization, Power, and In-kind Benefits

Jerry K. Rohacek

The Great Centralizer: Abraham Lincoln and the War between the States

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Book Reviews

Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776

By Walter A. McDougall
Reviewed by
Ralph Raico

Property and Freedom: The Constitution, the Courts, and Land-Use Regulation

By Bernard H. Siegan
Reviewed by
Howard Husock

Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age

By Paul Kens
Reviewed by
Christopher Grandy

Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919

By Paul A. C. Koistinen
Reviewed by
Richard M. Gamble

American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition

By Kenneth D. Rose
Reviewed by
Paula Baker

Dr. Strangelove’s America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age

By Margot A. Henriksen
Reviewed by
Stephen Cox

Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy

By Alberto Alesina and Nouriel Roubini with Gerald D. Cohen
Reviewed by
William R. Keech

Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics

By Eirik G. Furubotn and Rudolf Richter
Reviewed by
Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Etceteras

What Professor Stiglitz Learned in Washington

Robert Higgs

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