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Volume 17, No. 2 (Summer 2014) ABSTRACT : August 9, 2014 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing into law of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) of 1989 by U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush. FIRREA was enacted to clean up the savings and loan (S&L) financial debacle of the 1980s. In articles,

Volume 17, No. 2 (Summer 2014) Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America Bernard Harris, Ed. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012, 270 pp. In Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America , editor Bernard Harris has assembled ten studies on the history of mutual-aid societies. In his introduction, he proffers Marcel van der Linden’s definition

Volume 12, No. 2 (2009)   Caplan has thought much about his topic. However, redefining policy preferences that he and probably most economists disagree with as “irrationality” is dubious and per se will accomplish little in terms of changing minds in favor of expanding the role of markets in American society.   Steinreich, Dale. “Review of The

Halloween has a socialist tenor. Menacing figures arrive at your door uninvited, demand your property, and threaten to perform an unspecified “trick” if you don’t fork over. That’s the way the government works in a nutshell. Thanksgiving has been reinterpreted as the white man, after burning, raping, and pillaging the noble Indian, trying to make

Renowned surreal fiction writer Franz Kafka would have had trouble conceiving of a more absurd plot than last week’s dropping of a 30-foot, 22,000-pound conventional bomb on poverty-stricken, war-ravaged Afghanistan right before Good Friday which commemorates the Prince of Peace. The $170,000 GBU-43/B massive ordnance air blast bomb (MOAB, a.k.a.,

In the wake of numerous cases of lead poisoning through Flint, Michigan’s government-managed water supply, some commentators immediately began looking for ways to blame the private sector. Shortly thereafter, David Brodwin of U.S. News and World Report wrote “ Flint: The Big Cost of Small Government .” According to Brodwin, what caused

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 18,  no. 2 (Summer 2015) Risky Business covers a wide range of topics in insurance that graduate doctoral students in economics or finance could be expected to navigate with little difficulty. Unfortunately, that is not the audience this volume is aimed at. Editor Powell informs the reader in the

November 16, 2017 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the federal memorandum that ended the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) enrolled 600 indigent black-male sharecroppers in the study who were residents of Macon County, Alabama.  The study subjects were promised, among other services, free treatments

As the floodwaters brought by Hurricane Harvey last week recede and new hurricane Irma moves slowly toward the Eastern U.S., it might be edifying to review how millions of Americans, despite federal anti-flood efforts, came to live and work in hazardous to dangerous flood-prone areas. The foundation of the current disaster traces back at least to

Abstract: Abstract: This paper analyzes Brazil’s 2004–16 business cycle, which subsumes what is now regarded as the nation’s most severe macroeconomic recession in more than a century. During the steep recession, which stretched over more than two years, national production at one point fell 3.8 percent per annum while the unemployment rate rose