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Volume 11  Number 4  •  Spring 2007
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Articles
Doomsters, Evil I’s, and Tunnel-Vision Economics
By T. Norman Van Cott
Adam Smith’s Roles for Government and Contemporary U.S. Roles: Is the Welfare State Crowding Out Government’s Basic Functions?
By Jody W. Lipford, Jerry Slice
Facts, Values, and the Burden of Proof
By Peter Lewin
The Use of Knowledge in Natural-Disaster Relief Management
By Russell S. Sobel, Peter T. Leeson
The Middle Class and the Swedish Welfare State: How Not to Measure Redistribution
By Andreas Bergh
Institutional Review Board Mission Creep: The Common Rule, Social Science, and the Nanny State
By Ronald F. White
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Privateers
By Alexander T. Tabarrok
Chesterton and Belloc: A Critique
By Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Marcus Epstein, Walter E. Block

Controversy
Comment on James A. Montanye’s “Apotheosis of American Democracy”
By Xavier L. Simon
Reply to Xavier L. Simon’s Comment
By James A. Montanye

Review Essay
Economic and Cultural Globalization
By Paul A. Cantor

Book Reviews
The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
By Rodney Stark
Reviewed by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
By William Easterly
Reviewed by James B. Burnham
Politics as Religion
By Emilio Gentile. Translated by George Staunton
Reviewed by Paul Gottfried
Preferences and Situations: Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism
Edited by Ira Katznelson and Barry Weingast
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger



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