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Volume 7 Number 2 • Fall 2002

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The Secret of Worldwide Drug Prohibition: The Varieties and Uses of Drug Prohibition

By Harry G. Levine

Does Annual Real Gross Domestic Produce per Capita Overstate or Understate the Growth of Individual Welfare over the Past Two Centuries?

By Hendrik Van den Berg

Globalization and the Poor

By Ian Vásquez

Public Opinion and Campaign Finance: Reformers Versus Reality

By David M. Primo

Hong Kong’s CyberPort: Do Government and High Tech Mix?

By Benjamin C. Ostrov

Battling for Control of Health Care Resources

By E. Haavi Morreim

John Stuart Mill and the Liberty of Inebriation

By Richard Glen Boire

My Time with Soviet Economics

By Paul Craig Roberts

Controversy

Why Conservatives and Libertarians Should Support School Vouchers

By Joseph L. Bast

Giving Credit Where It’s Due: Why Tax Credits Are Better Than Vouchers

By Andrew J. Coulson

Book Reviews

The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth, and Equality

By Alan Macfarlane

Reviewed by Deepak K. Lal

Harmonizing Sentiments: The Declaration of Independence and the Jeffersonian Idea of Self-Government

By Hans L. Eicholz

Reviewed by Robert M. S. McDonald

Holding Health Care Accountable: Law and the New Medical Marketplace

By E. Haavi Morreim

Reviewed by Richard A. Epstein

Drug War Heresies: Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places

By Robert J. MacCoun and Peter Reuter

Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Miron

The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment

By Indur Goklany

Reviewed by Michael D. Mallinger

The Transfer Society: Economic Expenditures on Transfer Activity

By David N. Laband and George McClintock

Reviewed by Edgar K. Browning

How to Be Human Though an Economist

By Deirdre McCloskey

Reviewed by Robert A. Lawson

Etceteras

Government Protects Us?

By Robert Higgs

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