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Volume 1 Number 1 • Spring 1996

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Articles

By David J. Theroux

Editor’s Welcome

By Robert Higgs

What Is Living and What Is Dead in Classical Liberalism?

By Charles K. Rowley

Regulation of Carcinogens: Are Animal Tests a Sound Foundation?

By Aaron B. Wildavsky

The End of Welfare and the Contradiction of Compassion

By Stephen T. Ziliak

From Gold to the Ecu: The International Monetary System in Retrospect

By Leland B. Yeager

Culture, Politics, and McCarthyism

By Irving Louis Horowitz

Review Essay

Was Your High School Civics Teacher Right After All? Donald Wittman’s The Myth of Democratic Failure

By Donald J. Boudreaux

Book Reviews

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

By Thomas Sowell

Reviewed by Stephen Cox

Constitutional History of the American Revolution

By John Phillip Reid

Reviewed by Kermit L. Hall

The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson

By David N. Mayer

Reviewed by James W. Ely, Jr.

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems

By Thomas Ferguson

Reviewed by Michael C. Munger

Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union

By Scott Shane

Reviewed by Yuri N. Maltsev

Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy for a New Century

By Eric Nordlinger

Reviewed by Doug Bandow

Etceteras

Etceteras . . .

By Robert Higgs

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