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Volume 1  Number 4  •  Spring 1997
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Articles
The Case Against Psychiatric Coercion
By Thomas S. Szasz
Does “Existence Value” Exist? Environmental Economics Encroaches on Religion
By Robert H. Nelson
Was Locke a Liberal?
By Jerome Huyler
Entrepreneurship and Coastal Resource Management
By James R. Rinehart, Jeffrey J. Pompe
Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War
By Robert Higgs

Review Essay
Deja Vu: Branko Horvat’s “New Approach”
By Ivan Pongracic, Jr.

Book Reviews
Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems
By Svetozar Pejovich
Reviewed by Thráinn Eggertsson
The Limits of Public Choice: A Sociological Critique of the Economic Theory of Politics
By Lars Udehn
Reviewed by David Schap
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
By Theodore Draper
Reviewed by Gerald Gunderson
Democracy and International Trade: Britain, France, and the United States, 1860–1990
By Daniel Verdier
Reviewed by John V. C. Nye
The Chief Justiceship of Melville W. Fuller, 1888–1910
By James W. Ely Jr.
Reviewed by Andrew R. Rutten
The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy and Economic Transformation
By William K. Tabb
Reviewed by Yuzo Murayama

Etceteras
Fifty Years of the Mont Pelerin Society
By Robert Higgs



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