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Volume 11 Number 2 • Fall 2006

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Articles

When Fair Is Not Just and Just Is Not Fair

By Anthony de Jasay

Government and Science: A Dangerous Liaison?

By William N. Butos, Thomas J. McQuade

Did the United States Create Democracy in Germany?

By James L. Payne

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and the Demise of the Ideal Model of Health Care

By Ronald F. White

Texas Treasury Notes and the Election of 1844

By Clifford F. Thies, Gary M. Pecquet

The Condition of Women in Developing and Developed Countries

By Michelle Fram Cohen

Collapse? The “Dismal” Science Doesn’t Think So: Economists’ Views of the Future

By Robert M. Whaples

Should We Have Acted Thirty Years Ago to Prevent Climate Change?

By Randall G. Holcombe

Review Essays

Free Parking versus Free Markets

By Daniel B. Klein

Politics in Time

By Andrew R. Rutten

Book Reviews

Understanding Institutional Diversity

By Elinor Ostrom

Reviewed by Gary D. Libecap

Understanding the Process of Economic Change

By Douglass C. North

Reviewed by Stefan Voigt

Choice and Competition in American Education

Edited by Paul Peterson

Reviewed by John D. Merrifield

Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution

By Alan Dawley

Reviewed by Richard M. Gamble

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