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Independent Review (http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/promo.asp) is the quarterly journal from the Independent Institute and is currently edited by Robert Higgs (http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=489).
They have a library request form here (http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/pdf/library_form_2009.pdf) Take a minute of your time and fill it out. Turn it in to your local library/college library and help spread the message of free markets and liberty
This is the index to the current issue:
Volume 14, Number 4 (Spring 2010), 160 pages
Summary of Articles and Reviews
Articles:
Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability
By George A. Selgin (University of Georgia)
The present financial crisis shows how central banks can fuel the financial booms that make severe busts possible. Unfortunately, theoretical discussions of central banking badly neglect its role in fostering financial instability, in part because they ignore its history and political origins.
Rothbard on Fractional Reserve Banking: A Critique
By Michael S. Rozeff (University at Buffalo)
Murray Rothbard, in The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar (1974), maintains that fractional-reserve banking is fraudulent and inherently destabilizing of the economy. However, by considering how a regime of laissez faire in money and banking might operate, we may reach a judgment quite different from Rothbard's.
Ecological Science as a Creation Story
By Robert H. Nelson (University of Maryland)
For the past two decades or more, environmentalists have made growing use of the explicit Christian language of "the Creation." The American environmental movement has deep roots in and still depends heavily on the conviction that encounters with wild nature offer a view of God's work as it first appeared.
The Demise of Yucca Mountain
By William H. Beaver (Robert Morris University)
The long struggle to construct an underground nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, may well end with little to show for it. Until new technological or political solutions emerge, nuclear waste will continue to accumulate at nuclear power plants across the United States.
The Modern Growth of Government Springs More from Ideas Than from Vested Interests
By Slavisa Tasic (University of Turin)
According to a recent survey, a large majority of the members of the American Economic Association believes that special interests play a major role in policy formulation. John Maynard Keynes may have been closer to the truth, however, when he wrote, "it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison
By David B. Skarbek (George Mason University)
Inmates of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison are allowed to open restaurants, offer carpentry services, and operate commissaries that serve nonprisoner visitors and any wives or children who may live with them. They also purchase their own prison cells from each other, provide for their own medical care and often their own meals, and adjudicate their own disputes, leaving the prison's administrators with little more to do than to keep the prisoners from escaping.
From "Porous" to "Ruthless" Conscription, 1776-1917
By David R. Henderson (Naval Postgraduate School)
The United States shifted from a relatively porous state military draft in the nation’s early years to a harsh federal draft in 1917. This development had three major causes: the rise of a strong federal government, changes in the political philosophy held by dominant elites, and the precedent of the Civil War drafts.
Predecessors:
On Liberty's Liberty
By Carlos Rodríguez Braun (Complutense University)
John Stuart Mill began his book On Liberty (1859) by asserting that power may be rightfully used against someone only to prevent harm to others and not for the person's own good. Although he was off to a good start, Mill also offered a host of anti-liberal ideas that are profoundly hostile to freedom.
Book Reviews:
The Legal Foundations of Free Markets, edited by Stephen F. Copp
Reviewed by Andrew P. Morriss (University of Illinois)
What must a legal system provide in order to ensure a free market? The Legal Foundations of Free Markets offers nine substantive chapters by some of the best thinkers in the libertarian legal tradition about some of the most important issues in law--contract enforcement, natural law, common law and wealth, theories of regulation, economic rights in law, corporate law, antitrust, and environmental law.
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do about It, by Robert Glennon
Reviewed by Daniel Sutter (University of Texas, Pan America)
Because the fastest growing states have very limited supplies of water and have not taken sufficient steps to correct the projected shortfalls, it is only a matter of time until a major U.S. city runs out of water. Despite its weaknesses, Glennon's book is saturated with interesting information about serious problems that confront the nation's water system.
Wellsprings, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Reviewed by Julio H. Cole (Universidad Francisco Marroquín)
Mario Vargas Llosa's essays in defense of the classical liberal outlook make him unique among the great novelists of the Spanish-speaking world. In Wellsprings Vargas Llosa offers insights on subjects one might expect--Cervantes, Borges, Ortega y Gasset, nationalism, and Latin American history--as well as surprising ruminations on two thinkers who influenced his move away from the political left: Isaiah Berlin and Karl Popper.
They have a library request form here (http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/pdf/library_form_2009.pdf) Take a minute of your time and fill it out. Turn it in to your local library/college library and help spread the message of free markets and liberty
This is the index to the current issue:
Volume 14, Number 4 (Spring 2010), 160 pages
Summary of Articles and Reviews
Articles:
Central Banks as Sources of Financial Instability
By George A. Selgin (University of Georgia)
The present financial crisis shows how central banks can fuel the financial booms that make severe busts possible. Unfortunately, theoretical discussions of central banking badly neglect its role in fostering financial instability, in part because they ignore its history and political origins.
Rothbard on Fractional Reserve Banking: A Critique
By Michael S. Rozeff (University at Buffalo)
Murray Rothbard, in The Case for a 100 Percent Gold Dollar (1974), maintains that fractional-reserve banking is fraudulent and inherently destabilizing of the economy. However, by considering how a regime of laissez faire in money and banking might operate, we may reach a judgment quite different from Rothbard's.
Ecological Science as a Creation Story
By Robert H. Nelson (University of Maryland)
For the past two decades or more, environmentalists have made growing use of the explicit Christian language of "the Creation." The American environmental movement has deep roots in and still depends heavily on the conviction that encounters with wild nature offer a view of God's work as it first appeared.
The Demise of Yucca Mountain
By William H. Beaver (Robert Morris University)
The long struggle to construct an underground nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, may well end with little to show for it. Until new technological or political solutions emerge, nuclear waste will continue to accumulate at nuclear power plants across the United States.
The Modern Growth of Government Springs More from Ideas Than from Vested Interests
By Slavisa Tasic (University of Turin)
According to a recent survey, a large majority of the members of the American Economic Association believes that special interests play a major role in policy formulation. John Maynard Keynes may have been closer to the truth, however, when he wrote, "it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
Self-Governance in San Pedro Prison
By David B. Skarbek (George Mason University)
Inmates of Bolivia's San Pedro Prison are allowed to open restaurants, offer carpentry services, and operate commissaries that serve nonprisoner visitors and any wives or children who may live with them. They also purchase their own prison cells from each other, provide for their own medical care and often their own meals, and adjudicate their own disputes, leaving the prison's administrators with little more to do than to keep the prisoners from escaping.
From "Porous" to "Ruthless" Conscription, 1776-1917
By David R. Henderson (Naval Postgraduate School)
The United States shifted from a relatively porous state military draft in the nation’s early years to a harsh federal draft in 1917. This development had three major causes: the rise of a strong federal government, changes in the political philosophy held by dominant elites, and the precedent of the Civil War drafts.
Predecessors:
On Liberty's Liberty
By Carlos Rodríguez Braun (Complutense University)
John Stuart Mill began his book On Liberty (1859) by asserting that power may be rightfully used against someone only to prevent harm to others and not for the person's own good. Although he was off to a good start, Mill also offered a host of anti-liberal ideas that are profoundly hostile to freedom.
Book Reviews:
The Legal Foundations of Free Markets, edited by Stephen F. Copp
Reviewed by Andrew P. Morriss (University of Illinois)
What must a legal system provide in order to ensure a free market? The Legal Foundations of Free Markets offers nine substantive chapters by some of the best thinkers in the libertarian legal tradition about some of the most important issues in law--contract enforcement, natural law, common law and wealth, theories of regulation, economic rights in law, corporate law, antitrust, and environmental law.
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do about It, by Robert Glennon
Reviewed by Daniel Sutter (University of Texas, Pan America)
Because the fastest growing states have very limited supplies of water and have not taken sufficient steps to correct the projected shortfalls, it is only a matter of time until a major U.S. city runs out of water. Despite its weaknesses, Glennon's book is saturated with interesting information about serious problems that confront the nation's water system.
Wellsprings, by Mario Vargas Llosa
Reviewed by Julio H. Cole (Universidad Francisco Marroquín)
Mario Vargas Llosa's essays in defense of the classical liberal outlook make him unique among the great novelists of the Spanish-speaking world. In Wellsprings Vargas Llosa offers insights on subjects one might expect--Cervantes, Borges, Ortega y Gasset, nationalism, and Latin American history--as well as surprising ruminations on two thinkers who influenced his move away from the political left: Isaiah Berlin and Karl Popper.