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Volume 13  Number 1  •  Summer 2008
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Articles
The Anatomy of Social Security and Medicare
By Edgar K. Browning
What Do the Terrorists Want?
By James L. Payne
Commerce Is Beautiful
By Evan Osborne
Mystifying the Concept of Capital: Hernando de Soto’s Misdiagnosis of the Hindrance to Economic Development in the Third World
By James C. W. Ahiakpor
Álvaro Flórez Estrada: Compromised Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Spain
By Carlos Rodríguez Braun

Review Essays
The Life and Works of Ludwig von Mises
By Richard M. Ebeling
Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy
By Gene Callahan

Book Reviews
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Reviewed by James A. Montanye
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies
By Scott E. Page
Reviewed by Will C. Heath
Globalization and Its Enemies
By Daniel Cohen
Reviewed by Benjamin Powell
Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia
By Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Reviewed by Yuri N. Maltsev
Punishment and Inequality in America
By Bruce Western
Reviewed by David T. Beito
From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas, and Institutions in Historical Perspective
By Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Reviewed by John V. C. Nye
The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond
By Barry Eichengreen
Reviewed by Enrico Colombatto
Locke: A Biography
By Roger Woolhouse
Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble

Etceteras
Military Spending/Gross Domestic Product = Nonsense for Budget Policymaking
By Robert Higgs



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