The Independent Review — Spring 2014 Issue Now Available
Carl Close • Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The Spring 2014 issue of The Independent Review, the Independent Institute’s quarterly journal, has just been printed and is en route to subscribers. Here’s a quick look at the contents:
- Is the near extermination of the North American bison a clear example of “the tragedy of the commons”? No, not if, like Peter J. Hill, you keep in mind one crucial fact that nearly everyone has ignored. (Read a summary.)
- American higher education before the Civil War was not free of government intervention. Daniel L. Bennett shows why many writers misunderstand the problems that have long plagued academia. ( Read a summary.)
- Is the U.S. government moving toward default? According to David R. Henderson and Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, there’s one “iron law” of federal tax collection that makes national debt repudiation inevitable. (Read the article.)
- Historians who rank the U.S. presidents often seem biased in favor of presidents who promoted big government. Read our symposium featuring Robert Whaples, Brandon Dupont, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, Virgil Henry Storr, and John A. Moore to discover why Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge deserve far more credit for their economic policies. (Read summaries here, here, here, here, and here.)
- How are government programs like a salmon trap? Robert Higgs offers a surprisingly apt analogy. (Read the column.)
- In what ways has smuggling shaped America? Mark Thornton reviews Peter Andreas’s book on the importance of illicit trade in U.S. history. (Read the book review.)
- How has a private, for-profit school chain managed to serve the poor and vulnerable in 15 countries on four continents? Kevin Currie-Knight reviews James Tooley’s book on the challenges, pedagogy, and business model of the SABIS school network. (Read the book review.)
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[This post first appeared in the March 25, 2014, issue of The Lighthouse. To subscribe to this weekly email newsletter and other bulletins from the Independent Institute, enter your email address here.]
