Volume 7

Number 3

Winter

2002/03

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Articles

Prophecy de Novo: The Nearly Self-Fulfilling Doomsday Forecast

Craig S. Marxsen

Bagehot’s Lender of Last Resort: A Hollow Hallowed Tradition

John H. Wood

Can the Internet Promote Open Global Societies?

Douglas A. Houston

What Is Systemic Risk, and Do Bank Regulators Retard or Contribute to It?

George G. Kaufman, Kenneth E. Scott

My Time with Supply-Side Economics

Paul Craig Roberts

Controversy

Has Fractional-Reserve Banking Really Passed the Market Test?

Jorg Guido Hulsmann

Accounting for Fractional-Reserve Banknotes and Deposits—or, What’s Twenty Quid to the Bloody Midland Bank?

Lawrence H. White

Review Essays

Economics, Love, and Family Values: Nancy Folbre and Jennifer Roback Morse on the Invisible Heart

A.M.C. Waterman

Psychiatry’s Gentleman Abolitionist

Robert A. Baker

Book Reviews

Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control over the Lives of Ordinary Americans

By Charlotte A. Twight
Reviewed by
James L. Payne

Up in Smoke: From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics

By Martha A. Derthick
Reviewed by
Robert Heineman

Medicare’s Midlife Crisis

By Sue A. Blevins
Reviewed by
Charlotte Twight

Putting “Defense” Back into U.S. Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the Post–Cold War World

By Ivan Eland
Reviewed by
Lawrence J. Korb

Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous History of the Small Business Administration

By Jonathan J. Bean
Reviewed by
Paul Moreno

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