Volume 7

Number 2

Fall

2002

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The Secret of Worldwide Drug Prohibition: The Varieties and Uses of Drug Prohibition

Harry G. Levine

Does Annual Real Gross Domestic Produce per Capita Overstate or Understate the Growth of Individual Welfare over the Past Two Centuries?

Hendrik Van den Berg

Globalization and the Poor

Ian Vásquez

Public Opinion and Campaign Finance: Reformers Versus Reality

David M. Primo

Hong Kong’s CyberPort: Do Government and High Tech Mix?

Benjamin C. Ostrov

Battling for Control of Health Care Resources

E. Haavi Morreim

John Stuart Mill and the Liberty of Inebriation

Richard Glen Boire

My Time with Soviet Economics

Paul Craig Roberts

Controversy

Why Conservatives and Libertarians Should Support School Vouchers

Joseph L. Bast

Giving Credit Where It’s Due: Why Tax Credits Are Better Than Vouchers

Andrew J. Coulson

Book Reviews

The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth, and Equality

By Alan Macfarlane
Reviewed by
Deepak K. Lal

Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government

By Hans L. Eicholz
Reviewed by
Robert M. S. McDonald

Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the New Medical Marketplace

By E. Haavi Morreim
Reviewed by
Richard A. Epstein

Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places

By Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter
Reviewed by
Jeffrey A. Miron

The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment

By Indur Goklany
Reviewed by
Michael D. Mallinger

The Transfer Society: Economic Expenditures on Transfer Activity

By David N. Laband and George McClintock
Reviewed by
Edgar K. Browning

How to Be Human Though an Economist

By Deirdre McCloskey
Reviewed by
Robert A. Lawson

Etceteras

Government Protects Us?

Robert Higgs

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