Volume 9

Number 4

Spring

2005

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Promoting Air Power: The Influence of the U.S. Air Force on the Creation of the National Security State

Arlene Lazarowitz

Black Gold: The End of Bretton Woods and the Oil-Price Shocks of the 1970s

David Hammes, Douglas Wills

Rightsizing Los Angeles Government

Shirley V. Svorny, Ronald Oakerson

Tariffs, Immigration, and Economic Insulation: A New View of the U.S. Post-Civil War Era

Cecil E. Bohanon, T. Norman Van Cott

Is Government Inevitable?: Comment on Holcombe’s Analysis

Edward P. Stringham, Peter T. Leeson

Is Government Inevitable?: Reply to Leeson and Stringham

Randall G. Holcombe

Rational Economic Man and His Dog Set Out to Mow a Meadow

G. R. Steele

The Prospects for Democracy in High-Violence Societies

James L. Payne

Economic Freedom in the World, 2002

J. R. Clark, Robert A. Lawson, James D. Gwartney

Book Reviews

Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law

Edited by Terry L. Anderson and Fred S. McChesny
Reviewed by
James W. Ely, Jr.

Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments

By Benjamin Constant, translated by Dennis O’Keeffe
Reviewed by
Christie Davies

The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History

By Gary Lawson and Guy Seidman
Reviewed by
Herman Belz

The Christian Realists: Reassessing the Contributions of Niebuhr and His Contemporaries

Edited by Eric Patterson
Reviewed by
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State

By Noga Morag-Levine
Reviewed by
Andrew P. Morriss

Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do about It

By Peter G. Peterson
Reviewed by
James A. Montanye

Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment

By Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff
Reviewed by
Peter Gordon

The New Constitutional Order

By Mark Tushnet
Reviewed by
James E. Bond

Etceteras

Benefits and Costs of the U.S. Government’s War Making

Robert Higgs

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