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Spring/Summer 1988

Vol. 8 No. 1

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James M. Buchanan on market failure, Douglass C. North on ideology and institutions, and more ...

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MarketFailure and Political Failure

By James M. Buchanan

Ideology and Political/Economic Institutions

By Douglass C. North

Contract, Utility, and the Evaluation of Institutions

By J. Charles King

Democracy, Interest Groups, and the Price of Votes

By Gary M. Anderson and Robert Tollison

Visual Artists’ Rights Act of 1987: A Case of Misguided Legislation

By Ben Bolch, William W. Damon, and C. Elton Hinshaw

Hard Coals Make Bad Law: Congressional Parochialism versus National Defense

By Robert Higgs

The Struggle over Electricity Transmission Access

By Kenneth W. Costello

Should We Sell the Fed?

By William A. Kelly, Jr., Clark Nardinelli, and Myles S. Wallace

An Institutional Explanation for Corruption of Criminal Justice Officials

By Bruce L. Benson

Entrepreneurship and Rent Seeking in India

By Roby Rajan

Revolution, Reputation Effects, and Time Horizons

By Todd G. Buchholz

It’s Time to Free the Mails

On Interpreting Keynes: Reply to Leijonhufvud

By Leland B. Yeager

Did Keynes Mean Anything? Rejoinder to Yeager

By Axel Leijonhufvud

Book Review

The Peasant Betrayed by John P. Powelson and Richard Stock

By Stephen F. Williams

A Nation in Debt: Economists Debate the Federal Budget Deficit edited by Richard H. Fink and Jack C. High

By Milton H. Marquis

The New Protectionist Threat to World Welfare edited by Dominick Salvatore

By Leland B. Yeager

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