If, as Richard O. Curry writes, “the politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction ought to be considered as a unit,” then the politics of Reconstruction began the moment that Abraham Lincoln and other Northern leaders chose war over the Lower South’s secession. Volume 16, Number 2 (2002) Stromberg, Joseph R. “Third Thoughts on Contracting Out.”
In this article, Joseph R. Stromberg reviews Chris Sciabarra’s Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism . Volume 16, Number 3 (2002) Stromberg, Joseph R. “Book Review: Chris Sciabarra, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism .” Journal of Libertarian Studies 16, No. 3 (2002):
Douglass North has written many essays and books over forty or more years in which he has sought to reintegrate economic theory and economic history. His project became more and more ambitious over time, producing interesting insights, questions, and narratives. His early interests and work centered on the economics of location, transportation
The Peace of Westphalia (1648), which closed out the era of wars “of”—or allegedly “about”—religion, established what might be called a rule-bound cartel of sovereign, territorial states, conceived as externally equal to one another and internally hierarchical. At that moment, we see an end to any effective claim by the Papacy and the Holy Roman
Iowa Troops Bring Billions from Iraq (AP): “The United States has seized billions of dollars in U.S. currency from Iraq, but some of that money can’t be used to reconstruct the war-torn country because the bills are in too large of denominations. The U.S. government is shipping some of the money to America to be changed into smaller bills; then it
Terror Betting Dropped (Sky News): “The Pentagon has abandoned plans to set up a ‘terror stock market’ in which investors could bag cash by successfully predicting terrorist attacks. US defence chiefs had hoped the market would have been a valuable tool in second guessing when terror strikes would occur.” See also Google News for Terror Stock
Contrary to the War Party’s prediction that the Saddam capture would solve all that ails us, Robert Samuelson writes: “The Saddam rally was a bust. If you expected the tyrant’s capture to boost stocks or the dollar, you were disappointed—and therein lies a story. A great drama is now unfolding in the world’s money markets. In 2003, the United
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