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Volume 9  Number 4  •  Spring 2005
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Articles
Promoting Air Power: The Influence of the U.S. Air Force on the Creation of the National Security State
By Arlene Lazarowitz
Black Gold: The End of Bretton Woods and the Oil-Price Shocks of the 1970s
By David Hammes, Douglas Wills
Rightsizing Los Angeles Government
By Shirley V. Svorny, Ronald Oakerson
Tariffs, Immigration, and Economic Insulation: A New View of the U.S. Post-Civil War Era
By Cecil E. Bohanon, T. Norman Van Cott
Is Government Inevitable? Comment on Holcombe’s Analysis
By Edward P. Stringham, Peter T. Leeson
Is Government Inevitable? Reply to Leeson and Stringham
By Randall G. Holcombe
Rational Economic Man and His Dog Set Out to Mow a Meadow
By G. R. Steele
The Prospects for Democracy in High-Violence Societies
By James L. Payne
Economic Freedom in the World, 2002
By 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
By Robert Higgs



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