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Preface
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By Charles K. Rowley
Regulation of Carcinogens: Are Animal Tests a Sound Foundation?
By Aaron B. Wildavsky
The End of Welfare and the Contradiction of Compassion
By Stephen T. Ziliak
From Gold to the Ecu: The International Monetary System in Retrospect
By Leland B. Yeager
Culture, Politics, and McCarthyism
By Irving Louis Horowitz
Review Essay
Was Your High School Civics Teacher Right After All? Donald Wittman’s
The Myth of Democratic Failure
By Donald J. Boudreaux
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
By Thomas Sowell
Reviewed by Stephen Cox
Constitutional History of the American Revolution
By John Phillip Reid
Reviewed by Kermit L. Hall
The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson
By David N. Mayer
Reviewed by James W. Ely, Jr.
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems
By Thomas Ferguson
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
By Scott Shane
Reviewed by Yuri N. Maltsev
Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy for a New Century
By Eric Nordlinger
Reviewed by Doug Bandow
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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
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Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems
Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
Isolationism Reconfigured: American Foreign Policy for a New Century
