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September 2007, Volume 27, Issue 3
- 52-56 The ‘Intuitive’ Labour Theory Of Value Is Counter‐Intuitive
by Joseph S. Fulda - 57-64 The Paradox Of Slow‐Growth High‐Income Regions
by Jean‐Luc Migué & Gérard Bélanger - 65-70 Economic Sanctions: Failed Foreign Policy Tool And A Cost To American Business
by Charles A. Rarick - 71-74 A Model Of Growth Augmented With Institutions
by José Aixalá & Gema Fabro - 75-80 Making Truly Competitive Cities – On The Appropriate Role For Local Government
by Alan Collins - 81-86 Challenging The Challengers: A Review Of Serena Olsaretti'S Liberty, Desert And The Market And Daniel Attas'S Liberty, Property And Markets
by Elaine Sternberg - 87-89 Incentive Contracts For Politicians And Binding Election Promises: Reform Ideas For Democracy
by Hans Gersbach - 90-90 A Visionary Critic Of Socialism
by Greg Kaza - 91-95 The Smith–Hayek Economist: From Character To Identity
by Daniel B. Klein - 96-98 British Euroscepticism – A View From A Classical Liberal In New Europe
by Pawel Lisiewicz - 99-99 The Cost Of A Momentous Day
by Tim Congdon - 100-100 India And Globalisation
by Razeen Sally - 101-101 The Broken University
by James Stanfield - 102-102 The Who And Health Targets
by Roger Bate - 103-103 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? A Guide To Successful Rent‐Seeking
by John Meadowcroft - 104-105 IQ AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY ‐ by Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen
by Christie Davies - 105-106 THE ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF SMALL BUSINESS: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ‐ by Graham Bannock
by Roger Fox - 106-106 LEVIATHAN ON THE RIGHT: HOW BIG‐GOVERNMENT CONSERVATISM BROUGHT DOWN THE REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION ‐ by Michael D. Tanner
by John Blundell - 106-107 THE NEW CAPITALISTS: HOW CITIZEN INVESTORS ARE RESHAPING THE CORPORATE AGENDA ‐ by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt‐Watson
by Geoffrey Wood - 107-108 FIDEL CASTRO: A BIOGRAPHY ‐ by Volker Skierka
by Jackie Newbury - 108-109 THE PRIVATIZATION OF ROADS AND HIGHWAYS: HUMAN AND ECONOMIC FACTORS ‐ by Walter Block
by Oliver Knipping
June 2007, Volume 27, Issue 2
- 2-5 Editorial: Entrepreneurial Responses To Poverty And Social Conflict: The Enterprise Africa! Project
by Peter J. Boettke - 6-13 The Business Of Reconciliation: Entrepreneurship And Commercial Activity In Post‐Conflict Rwanda
by Karol Boudreaux - 14-19 Markets, Institutions And Millennium Development Goals
by Mwangi S. Kimenyi - 20-28 Development Goes Wireless
by Jasson Urbach - 29-36 Half A Cheer For Fair Trade
by Philip Booth & Linda Whetstone - 37-43 Educating Amaretch: Private Schools For The Poor And The New Frontier For Investors
by James Tooley - 44-48 The International Current Account Imbalances: A Sceptical View
by W. Max Corden - 49-55 Regionalism And Free‐Market Reform: The Case Of Poland
by Piotr Zientara - 56-63 The Future Of The News In The Digital Era
by Richard Lambert - 64-72 The Patient As Consumer: The Advertising Of Pharmaceuticals Directly To Consumers Should Be Allowed And Encouraged
by Frank Auton - 73-77 Changing Business Environments, International Trade And Regional Integration: Who Needs Cafta?
by Julius M. Walecki - 78-79 Remembering Milton Friedman
by John Greenwood - 83-87 From Bismarck to Friedman
by Kristian Niemietz - 88-89 Answering The Questions On Lvt
by Fred E. Foldvary - 90-94 Transport Privatisation: Principles, Problems And Prospects
by John Hibbs - 95-97 The Rise Of Bureaucratism: Von Mises’ Warning – A Review Essay On Bureaucracy By Ludwig Von Mises
by Alan Peacock - 98-98 Nice Economy Could Be Ended By ‘Social Protection’
by Tim Congdon - 99-99 Europe, Trade And Globalisation
by Razeen Sally - 100-100 The Austrian Economics Of Education
by James Stanfield - 101-101 The Cost Of Cheap Drugs
by Roger Bate - 102-102 Should Rural Post Offices Be Subsidised?
by John Meadowcroft - 103-103 INVESTMENT BANKING: INSTITUTIONS, LAW, AND POLITICS by Alan D. Morrison and William J. Wilhelm Jr
by Geoffrey Wood - 104-104 THE POLITICS OF BSE by Richard Packer
by Elen Stokes - 104-105 LIBERATION BIOLOGY: THE SCIENTIFIC AND MORAL CASE FOR THE BIOTECH REVOLUTION by Ronald Bailey
by Terence Kealey - 105-106 MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK by Joseph Stiglitz
by Johan Wennström - 106-107 WHY MOST THINGS FAIL: AND HOW TO AVOID IT by Paul Ormerod
by Tarquin Wethered - 107-108 LIBERTY & LEARNING: MILTON FRIEDMAN'S VOUCHER IDEA AT FIFTY Edited by Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy
by Colleen Dyble - 108-108 OUR CULTURE, WHAT'S LEFT OF IT: THE MANDARINS AND THE MASSES by Theodore Dalrymple
by Christie Davies - 108-109 HOW TO LABEL A GOAT: THE SILLY RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT ARE STRANGLING BRITAIN by Ross Clark
by John Blundell
March 2007, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 2-5 Editorial: Issues In Fighting Financial Crime
by Chizu Nakajima - 6-9 Fighting Financial Crime: A Uk Perspective
by Mike Bowron & Oliver Shaw - 10-13 Financial Crime In Australia
by George Gilligan - 14-17 Controlling Serious Financial Crime: A Jamaican Perspective
by Shazeeda Ali - 18-21 The Funding Of Traditional Organised Crime In Russia
by Irina Abramova - 22-26 Financial Crime Trends In Central And Eastern Europe
by Nick Ridley - 27-33 The Prevention Of Financial Crime Within An Islamic Legal Framework
by Faisal Atbani - 34-38 Financial Crime In South Africa
by Louis De Koker - 39-43 The Recent Regulatory Response To Corporate Economic Crime In The United States: Observations And Comments
by James A. Millar & Fred C. Yeager - 44-51 How Trade Unions Are A Roadblock To Poland'S Economic Renaissance
by Piotr Zientara - 52-57 The Development Of The Right To Buy And The Sale Of Council Houses
by Robin Sillars - 58-64 An Examination Of The Uk Labour Market For Doctors
by Roger Fox - 65-70 The Future Of Market Capitalism
by J. L. Porket - 71-75 Savings In The Absence Of Functioning Property Rights
by Nick Silver & Emmanuel Acquaah & Oskari Juurikkala - 76-78 Is There An Alternative To School Vouchers?
by Douglas Carswell - 79-82 Business Improvement Districts: Past, Present, Future
by Georgina Dawkins & Julie Grail - 83-85 DEIRDRE McCLOSKEY'S THE BOURGEOIS VIRTUES: ETHICS FOR AN AGE OF COMMERCE
by Peter J. Boettke - 86-86 Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Assets Spells Danger!
by Tim Congdon - 87-87 The New Asian Drama
by Razeen Sally - 88-88 Market‐Based Management In Education
by James Stanfield - 89-89 Unhealthy Corruption
by Roger Bate - 90-90 Tax, Equity And Redistribution
by John Meadowcroft - 91-91 GETTING AMERICA RIGHT: THE TRUE CONSERVATIVE VALUES OUR NATION NEEDS TODAY ‐ by Edwin J. Feulner and Doug Wilson
by John Blundell - 91-93 ADAM SMITH, RADICAL AND EGALITARIAN: AN INTERPRETATION FOR THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY ‐ by Iain McLean and ADAM SMITH AND THE PURSUIT OF PERFECT LIBERTY ‐ by James Buchan
by Craig Smith - 93-94 REVIVING THE INVISIBLE HAND: THE CASE FOR CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY ‐ by Deepak Lal
by Daniel Griswold - 94-94 CORRUPTION AND REFORM: LESSONS FROM AMERICA'S ECONOMIC HISTORY ‐ Edited by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin
by Ian Senior - 94-95 THE WHIG WORLD 1760–1837 ‐ by Leslie Mitchell
by Robert C. B. Miller - 95-96 SELF‐DETERMINATION: THE OTHER PATH FOR NATIVE AMERICANS ‐ Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson and Thomas E. Flanagan
by Richard Wellings - 96-97 THE ROLE OF TRADITION IN JAPAN'S INDUSTRIALIZATION: ANOTHER PATH TO INDUSTRIALIZATION ‐ Edited by Masayuki Tanimoto
by Colin Newbury - 97-97 HOW PROGRESSIVES REWROTE THE CONSTITUTION ‐ by Richard A. Epstein
by Kathryn Wilcox
December 2006, Volume 26, Issue 4
- 2-4 Editorial: Rethinking Assistance For Africa
by Paul Collier - 5-11 Ramping Up African Growth: Lessons From Five Decades Of Growth Experience
by Benno J. Ndulu - 12-18 An Interpretation Of The Significance Of The Second Battle Of Waterloo
by Gwyn Prins - 19-23 Inequality, Ethnicity And The Fight Against Corruption In Africa: A Kenyan Perspective
by John Githongo - 24-33 African Transitions And The Resource Curse: An Alternative Perspective
by Thomas C. Heller - 34-38 The 364 Economists And The 1981 Budget: An Examination Of The Empirical Evidence
by Tim Congdon - 39-42 After The 1981 Budget: A Reply To Tim Congdon
by Stephen Nickell - 43-45 A Rejoinder To Stephen Nickell
by Tim Congdon - 46-52 Employment Protection Legislation And The Growth Of The Service Sector In The European Union
by Piotr Zientara - 53-60 The Trouble With Final Salary Pension Schemes
by Nick Silver - 61-63 Taxing Land Value Is Just Another Questionable Tax
by Oliver Marc Hartwich - 64-67 Rinkonomics: A Window On Spontaneous Order
by Daniel B. Klein - 68-71 Airline Ticket Taxes: Innovation Or Idiocy?
by Anna Hård af Segerstad - 72-74 More Pensions Mis‐Selling Ahead: By Government Of Course
by Terry Arthur - 75-78 In Your Car No One Can Hear You Scream! Are Traffic Controls In Cities A Necessary Evil?
by Martin Cassini - 79-79 In The Medium To Long Run, We Are All Pensioners
by Tim Congdon - 80-80 The Collapse Of The Doha Round: Does The Wto Have A Future?
by Razeen Sally - 81-81 For‐Profit ‘Faireducation’ Comprehensive Schooling
by James Stanfield - 82-82 Can Bill Gates’ Charity Do Lasting Good?
by Roger Bate - 83-83 Viva Personal Debt
by John Meadowcroft - 84-85 FLAT TAX: TOWARDS A BRITISH MODEL ‐ by Allister Heath
by Richard Teather - 85-86 NOTHING LIKE A DAME: THE SCANDALS OF SHIRLEY PORTER ‐ by Andrew Hosken
by John Blundell - 86-87 FLYING ON ONE ENGINE: THE BLOOMBERG BOOK OF MASTER MARKET ECONOMISTS ‐ Edited by Thomas R. Keene
by Matthew O’Keeffe - 87-87 EUROPEAN DAWN: AFTER THE SOCIAL MODEL ‐ by Johnny Munkhammar
by Anna Hård af Segerstad - 87-88 NEOCONSERVATISM: WHY WE NEED IT ‐ by Douglas Murray and ANTI‐TOTALITARIANISM: THE LEFT‐WING CASE FOR A NEOCONSERVATIVE FOREIGN POLICY ‐ by Oliver Kamm
by Lawrence Tal - 88-89 A THRONE IN BRUSSELS: BRITAIN, THE SAXE‐COBURGS AND THE BELGIANISATION OF EUROPE ‐ by Paul Belien and EUROPE AS EMPIRE: THE NATURE OF THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION ‐ by Jan Zielonka
by Pawel Lisiewicz - 89-90 FAMILY POLICY, FAMILY CHANGES: SWEDEN, ITALY AND BRITAIN COMPARED ‐ by Patricia Morgan
by Lynette Swift - 92-92 FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING ‐ by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
by Edward Smith - 92-93 THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST ‐ by Tim Harford
by Johan Wennström - 93-94 ECONOMICS UNCUT: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO LIFE, DEATH AND MISADVENTURE ‐ Edited by Simon W. Bowmaker
by Emma Winberg - 94-94 THE WAGES OF WINS: TAKING MEASURE OF THE MANY MYTHS IN MODERN SPORT ‐ by David J. Berri, Martin B. Schmidt and Stacey L. Brook
by John Blundell
September 2006, Volume 26, Issue 3
- 2-3 Editorial: Pharmaceuticals And Government Policy
by Tony Hockley - 4-9 A New Role For Consumers’ Preferences In The Provision Of Healthcare
by Harry Telser & Peter Zweifel - 10-16 The Long‐Term Economic Gain From New Models Of Healthcare Provision: The Opportunities For Pharmaceutical Companies
by Nick Bosanquet - 17-23 Equity Of Access To Innovative Medicines: Mission Impossible?
by Jim Attridge - 24-32 Direct‐To‐Consumer Advertising (Dtca) Of Pharmaceuticals: An Updated Review Of The Literature And Debate Since 2003
by Frank Auton - 33-38 Six Issues In Pharmaceuticals
by Andrew Lilico - 39-47 The State Giveth And The State Taketh Away: Supporting The Research‐Based Pharmaceutical Industry In Europe And The Uk
by Mike Sedgley - 48-54 Subnational Government Organisation And Public Debt Crises
by Charles B. Blankart & Achim Klaiber - 55-61 Yes Minister: Invaluable Material For Teaching The Public Choice Of Bureaucracy
by John Considine - 62-66 The European Union And Economic Decline: Why We Need Another Ludwig Erhard
by Gisela Stuart - 67-69 Audit Market Failure
by Benedikt Koehler - 70-73 The Great Contraction
by W. Spencer Kocher - 74-76 Gordon Brown Counts Dead Children: The True Impact Of Inheritance Tax
by Cliff Pratten - 77-77 Energy Prices, Inflation And Monetary Policy
by Tim Congdon - 78-78 Sceptics And The Washington Consensus
by Razeen Sally - 79-79 Free To Choose: Yes, Prime Minister
by James Stanfield - 80-80 Sick At The World Bank
by Roger Bate - 81-81 In The Nhs, More Can Mean Less
by John Meadowcroft - 82-83 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
by Peter J. Boettke - 83-84 HAPPINESS QUANTIFIED: A SATISFACTION CALCULUS APPROACH ‐ by Bernard van Praag and Ada Ferrer‐I‐Carbonell
by Sebastiano Bavetta - 84-85 PARADOXES OF POWER: REFLECTIONS ON THE THATCHER INTERLUDE ‐ by Alfred Sherman
by John Blundell - 85-85 MONEY FOR NOTHING (2nd edn.) ‐ by Roger Bootle
by Geoffrey Lea - 85-86 WHY I, TOO, AM NOT A CONSERVATIVE‐ by James M. Buchanan
by John Meadowcroft - 86-87 POLITICS OF FEAR: BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT ‐ by Frank Furedi
by Leslie Jones - 87-88 FAIR TRADE FOR ALL: HOW TRADE CAN PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT ‐ by Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton
by Joshua P. Hill
June 2006, Volume 26, Issue 2
- 2-8 Editorial: Better Regulation Without The State
by Keith Boyfield - 9-16 Pyrrhic Victory? The Unintended Consequence Of The Pensions Act 2004
by Alistair Byrne & Debbie Harrison & Bill Rhodes & David Blake - 17-21 The Limits Of Regulatory Reform In The Eu
by Frank Vibert - 22-30 Financial Regulation, The State And The Market: Is The Financial Services Authority An Unnecessary Evil?
by Terry Arthur & Philip Booth - 31-36 Advertising Regulation And Co‐Regulation: The Challenge Of Change
by Andrew Brown - 37-41 Regulation In An Untrusting World
by Stephen Sklaroff - 42-49 Europe And China: The Fatal Conceit
by Andrew Neil - 50-52 Europe, China And The Fatal Conceit: A Comment On Andrew Neil
by Philip Booth - 53-54 China'S Constructivist Rationalism: A Comment On Andrew Neil
by Ross Walker - 55-59 Deus Caritas Est: The Social Message Of Pope Benedict Xvi
by Samuel Gregg - 60-63 Destroying A Country In Order To Save It: The Folly Of Economic Sanctions Against Myanmar
by Charles A. Rarick - 64-70 Can A New Nuclear Programme Be Justified?
by Colin Robinson & Eileen Marshall - 71-73 Taxi Deregulation And Transaction Costs
by Christian Seibert - 74-77 Arthur Seldon: Great Editor, Thinker And Radical Economist
by Ralph Harris & Stuart Waterhouse & Martin Anderson & Geoffrey Howe - 78-78 New Labour'S Bleak Productivity Legacy
by Tim Congdon - 79-79 Foreign Aid Revisited
by Razeen Sally - 80-80 The National Union Of Teachers (Nut) On Education
by James Stanfield - 81-81 The Real Cost Of Aids In Sierra Leone
by Roger Bate - 82-82 Would Britain Have Developed With Aid?
by John Meadowcroft - 83-83 THE MORAL CONSEQUENCES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH by Benjamin M. Friedman
by Daniel M. Rothschild - 83-84 A GIFT OF FREEDOM: HOW THE JOHN M. OLIN FOUNDATION CHANGED AMERICA by John J. Miller
by John Blundell - 84-85 WHERE HAVE ALL THE INTELLECTUALS GONE? CONFRONTING 21ST CENTURY PHILISTINISM by Frank Furedi
by Christie Davies - 85-86 GOVERNING BY NETWORK: THE NEW SHAPE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR by Stephen Goldsmith and William D. Eggers
by Keith Boyfield - 86-87 SAVING OUR ENVIRONMENT FROM WASHINGTON: HOW CONGRESS GRABS POWER, SHIRKS RESPONSIBILITY, AND SHORTCHANGES THE PEOPLE by David Schoenbrod
by Yelena Shagall - 87-88 THE CHURCH AND THE MARKET: A CATHOLIC DEFENSE OF THE FREE ECONOMY by Thomas E. Woods Jr. and COMPENDIUM OF THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH by Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
by Philip Booth - 88-89 THE CREATION AND DESTRUCTION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL by Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
by David Quartner - 89-90 THE WORLD'S BANKER by Sebastian Mallaby
by Roger Bate
March 2006, Volume 26, Issue 1
- 2-3 Editorial: The Future Of Local Government
by John Meadowcroft - 4-10 Principles And Theories Of Local Government
by Peter A. Watt - 11-17 Facilitating Choice In English Local Government
by Stephen J. Bailey - 18-24 Modernising Local Government
by Nirmala Rao - 25-30 The Failure Of The Poll Tax And Classical Liberal Political Economy: Lessons For The Future
by John Meadowcroft - 31-35 A Local Sales Tax Will Set The Town Halls Free
by Douglas Carswell - 36-40 The Private Finance Initiative In Local Government
by Rob Ball & David King - 41-47 Hayek, ‘The Intellectuals And Socialism’, And Weighted Scale‐Free Networks
by Paul Ormerod - 48-53 Property Rights And The General Theory Of Exchange: Frequently Neglected Implications Of The Division Of Labour And The Law Of Comparative Advantage
by Manuel F. Ayau - 54-58 Planning By Negotiation For Sustainable Development: A Tale Of Two Habitats
by Lawrence W. C. Lai & Frank T. Lorne - 59-60 Public Choice Theory, Protectionism And The Case Of Nafta
by David Quartner - 61-64 The Political Economy Of Overlapping Jurisdictions And The French/Dutch Rejection Of The Eu Constitution
by Jean‐Luc Migué - 65-67 Free Trade, ‘Pauper Labour’ And Prosperity: A Reply To Professor Mishan
by John Meadowcroft - 68-69 A Rejoinder To John Meadowcroft
by E. J. Mishan - 70-70 On Average, Britons Out‐Think The Pensions Commission
by Tim Congdon - 71-71 Trade Negotiations Or Trade Policy?
by Razeen Sally - 72-72 Seldon'S Charge
by James Stanfield - 73-73 Can Iceland Be A Bridge Over The Atlantic?
by Roger Bate - 74-74 The Re‐Nationalisation Of Britain
by John Meadowcroft - 75-76 Rich Is Beautiful: A Very Personal Defence Of Mass Affluence
by Geoffrey E. Wood - 76-76 Limits To Privatization: How To Avoid Too Much Of A Good Thing
by David Parker - 76-77 Kidney For Sale By Owner
by James S. Taylor - 77-78 William Pitt The Younger
by Edward Swift - 78-79 Faith In Freedom: Libertarian Principles And Psychiatric Practices
by Bob Layson - 79-79 On The Road To Democracy: The Czech Republic From Communism To Free Society
by Jackie Newbury - 79-80 Margaret Thatcher'S Revolution: How It Happened And What It Meant
by John Blundell - 80-81 Can The Market Deliver? Funding Public Service Television In The Digital Age
by Sir Alan Peacock - 81-82 Alarming Drum: Britain'S European Dilemma
by Keith Boyfield
December 2005, Volume 25, Issue 4
- 2-3 Editorial Note
by Philip Booth - 4-10 Editorial: Diversifying The Institutions Of Local Planning
by Chris Webster - 11-15 Planning By Freehold
by Fred Foldvary - 16-18 Planning By Contract: The Leasehold Foundation Of A Comprehensively Planned Capitalist Land Market
by Lawrence Wai‐Chung Lai - 19-23 Planning By Commonhold
by Chris Webster & Renaud Le Goix - 24-27 Planning Through Compulsory Commercial Clubs: Business Improvement Districts
by Lorlene Hoyt - 28-31 Planning Through Residential Clubs: Homeowners’ Associations
by Evan McKenzie