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Volume 8  Number 3  •  Winter 2003/04
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Articles
Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable
By Randall G. Holcombe
Is Discourse Relevant for Economic Development?
By Scott A. Beaulier
The Problem of “Dirty Hands” and Corrupt Leadership
By Laurie L. Calhoun
An Original Omission? Property in Rawls’s Political Thought
By Quentin P. Taylor
Regulation by Litigation: Diesel Engine Emission Control
By Bruce Yandle, Andrew P. Morriss
The Secret Ballot Protects the Incumbency Advantage
By Jac C. Heckelman
The Individualist Legacy in Latin America
By Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Can the Past and the Future Coexist?
By Matthew E. Brown

Book Reviews
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By Kenneth Pomeranz
Reviewed by Gary Michael Anderson
Benjamin Franklin
By Edmund S. Morgan
Reviewed by George M. Curtis III
To Form a More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution
By Robert A. McGuire
Reviewed by Russell S. Sobel
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970–2000
By Stephen Kotkin
Reviewed by Jody W. Lipford
Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s Futile War on Drugs in Latin America
By Ted Galen Carpenter
Reviewed by William Ratliff
The Moral Foundations of Politics
By Ian Shapiro
Reviewed by N. Scott Arnold
Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal
By W. Kip Viscusi
Reviewed by Pierre Lemieux

Etceteras
The Real Scandal of “Janitors Insurance”
By E. Frank Stephenson



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