Recent Publications by IHS Alumni
Actual Ethics, by James R. Otteson. Cambridge University Press, June 2006.
Adam Smith: The Philosopher of Enlightenment, by Adam S. Hofri. Tel-Aviv: Mapa Publishers, 2005.
Adam Smith’s Political Philosophy: The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order, by Craig Smith. London: Routledge, 2006.
“Against the New Paternalism: Internalities and the Economics of Self-Control,” by Glen Whitman. Cato Policy Analysis 563 (February 22, 2006).
“Ali v. Rumsfeld: Challenging the President’s Power to Interpret CustomaryInternational Law,” by Julian Ku. 38 Case Western Res. Int’l L. J., forthcoming 2006.
“Antidumping – Prospects for Discipline from the Doha Negotiations,” by J. Michael Finger & Andrei Zlate. The Journal of World Investment & Trade, 6:4 (August 2005):531-552.
“Ayn Rand among the Austrians,” by Larry Sechrest & Chris M. Sciabarra. Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 6:2 (Spring 2005): 241-50.
“Berlin and History,” by Ryan Hanley in The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, ed. George Crowder and Henry Hardy. New York: Prometheus, 2007.
Beyond the First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech and Pluralism, by Samuel P. Nelson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
The Cambridge Companion to Hayek, edited by Edward Feser. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
“Campaign Finance Laws and Political Efficacy: Evidence from the States,” by Jeff Milyo and David Primo. Election Law Journal, 5:1(2006): 23-39.
“Can I Sue without Being Injured? Why the Benefit of the Bargain Theory for Product Liability is Bad Law and Bad Economics,” by Moin Yahya. 3 GEORGETOWN J. L. & PUB. POLICY 83 (2005).
“The Case Against Smoking Bans,” by Thom Lambert. 13 MO. ENVT, L. & POL'Y REV. 94 (2006).
The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy, by Thomas E. Woods. Lexington, 2005.
“Civil Society and Democratization: Critical Views from the Middle East,” by Sean L. Yom. Middle East Review of International Affairs, 9:4 (Winter 2005-6).
“College Quality and Wages in the United States,” by Dan Black, Kermit Daniel, and Jeffrey Smith. German Economic Review 6:3(2005): 415-443.
“Complementarities Between Outsourcing and Foreign Sourcing,” by Adam Szeidl, with Grossman and Elhanan Helpman. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings (May 2005).
The Confederation Congress and the First Trans Appalachian Settlement Policy 1783-1787, by Michael Allen. Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.
Congress and the Constitution, edited by Keith Whittington & Neal Devins. Duke University Press, 2005.
“Consenting Adults? Amish ‘Rumspringa’ and the Quandary of Exit in Liberalism,” by Steven Mazie. Perspectives on Politics 3:4(Dec 2005).
Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, edited by Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman. Blackwell Press, 2005.
“Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in North America: The State of the Art,” by Lori Verstegen Ryan. Business & Society 44(2005): 40-73.
“Cry the Beloved Continent: Africans Are Poor Because They're Poorly Governed,” by Melinda Ammann. Reason 37:3(July 2005):61(3).
“Designing Real Terrorism Futures,” by Robin Hanson. Public Choice (2006).
“The Disturbing Parallels between University Speech Codes and Old South Demands to Limit Freedom of Speech,” by David Beito. History News Network, February 23, 2005.
“Do Gas Stations Raise the Price of Gasoline on the Weekends or Holidays?” by Joshua Hall with Robert Lawson and Lauren Raymer, Atlantic Economic Journal (Anthology Section) vol. 35, no. 1 (March 2007): 119-120.
The Dynamics of Interventionism: Regulation and Redistribution in the Mixed Economy, edited by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006.
“Earnest Revelations,” by William Craig Rice – A Review of Neil McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. The Common Review 4:4 (Spring 2006):44-46.
“Eco-Industrial Parks: The Case for Private Planning,” by Pierre Desrochers, in Re-Thinking Green. Alternative to Environmental Bureaucracy, Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close, editors. The Independent Institute, 2005.
“Economists as Experts: Overconfidence in Theory and Practice,” by Erik Angner. Journal of Economic Methodology 13:1 (2006): 1-24.
The Elements of Justice, by David Schmidtz. NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
“The Ethics and Aesthetics of For-Profit Bioethics Consultation,” by Lisa Rasmussen, in Health Care Ethics Committee (HEC) Forum, 17:2(2005): 94-121.
Ethics Expertise: History, Contemporary Perspectives, and Applications, edited by Lisa M. Rasmussen. Springer, 2005.
Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin, edited by Scott Hershovitz. Oxford University Press, 2006.
“A Few Ugly Incidents at U-Va. Don't Justify a Curb on Free Speech,” by Anthony Dick. Washington Post (October 2, 2005).
For & Against: Is There a Duty to Obey the Law? By Christopher Wellman & John Simmons. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making, by Stephen Skowronek and Matthew Glassman. University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2007.
Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology; by Ian Carter, Matthew H. Kramer, and Hillel Steiner. Blackwell/ Oxford, 2006.
Freedom, Authority, and Social Order: An Argument about Government, edited by Aeon Skoble. Open Court, 2006.
“Freedom Reduces Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” by Roger Bate. Economic Affairs 25:1(March 2005):58.
“Globalization and Diversification of Islamic Movements: Three Turkish Cases,” by Ahmet Kuru. Political Science Quarterly 120: 2 (Summer 2005).
Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding, by Tyler Cowen. Princeton University Press, 2006.
“The Green Costs of Kelo: Economic Development Takings and Environmental Protection,” by Ilya Somin with Jonathan H. Adler. Washington University Law Review (2006).
“The Growing Industry in Rand Scholarship,” by Chris M.Sciabarra, in Philosophers of Capitalism, Edward W. Younkins, ed. Ashgate, 2006.
“A Hayekian Theory of Social Justice,” by Samuel T. Morison. New York University Journal of Law & Liberty 1 (January 2005): 225-247.
“The Hippocratic Oath and Contemporary Medicine: Dialectic Between Past Ideals and Present Reality,” by Fabrice Jotterand. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 30 (2005):107-128.
“Homer Economicus: Using The Simpsons to Teach Economics,” by Joshua Hall. Journal of Private Enterprise vol. 20, no. 2 (Spring 2005): 165-176.
“Ideological Roots of the Red Scare,” by John E. Moser. In Robert Lieberman (ed.), History in Dispute: The Red Scare after 1945. St. James Press, 2005.
“'The Indispensable Basis of Democracy': American Catholicism, the Church-State Debate, and the Soul of American Liberalism, 1900-1920,” by Zachary Calo. 91 Virginia Law Review 1037 (2005).
“The Influence of First Ladies on Mental Health Policy,” by Colleen Shogan, Jerome Short and Nicole Owings. White House Studies 5:1 (2005).
“Is There Room for Political Philosophy in ‘Postmodern Critical Augustinianism’?” By Todd Breyfogle, in Deconstructing Radical Orthodoxy: Postmodern Theology, Rhetoric and Truth, Wayne J. Hankey and Douglas Hedley, editors. Ashgate Press, 2005.
“Islam and Capitalism: A Non-Rodinsonian Approach,” by Irfan Khawaja, in Business and Religion: A Clash of Civilizations, edited by Nicholas Capaldi. M & M Scrivener Press, 2005.
“James Madison Has Left the Building,” by Keith Whittington. University of Chicago Law Review 72:3 (Summer 2005): 1137-1158.
Judge and Jury; American Tort Law on Trial, by Eric A. Helland & Alexander Tabarrok. Independent Institute, Jan 2006.
“Known Unknowns: The Delusion of Terrorism Insurance,” by Michelle Boardman. Georgetown Law Journal 93:3 (March 2005).
The Law and Bioethics, co-edited by Ana Iltis, Sandra Johnson, and Barbara Hinze. London: Routledge, 2006.
“Learning from History or from Nature, or Both? Recycling Networks and their Metaphors in Early Industrialization,” by Pierre Desrochers. Progress in Industrial Ecology 2:1 (April 2005).
“‘Let Down Your Bucket Where You Are:’ The Afro-American Hospital and Black Health Care in Mississippi, 1924-1966,” by David Beito. Social Science History (2006).
Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: The Problem of Authority and Values since World War Two, by David Ciepley. Harvard University Press, 2007.
Liberty & Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty, edited by Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy. Cato, 2006.
“Lincoln’s Example: Executive Power and the Survival of Constitutionalism,” by Benjamin A. Kleinerman.” Perspcetives on Politics 3:4 (Dec 2005).
“Local Decentralization and Local Economic Growth: A Cross-Sectional Examination of U.S. Metropolitan Areas,” by Dean Stansel. Journal of Urban Economics, 57 (January 2005): 55-72.
“May It Please The Court? The Solicitor General’s Not So ‘Special’ Relationship – Archibald Cox And The 1963-1964 Reapportionment Cases,” by Helen Knowles. Journal of Supreme Court History (July 2006).
“Media Bias and Reputation,” by Jesse Shapiro & Matthew Gentzkow. Journal of Political Economy 114:2 (April 2006).
“A Measure of Media Bias,” by Jeff Milyo & Tim Groseclose. Quarterly Journal of Economics 120:4 (2005):1191-1237.
“Membership and Belonging: Etzioni’s ‘Authenticity’ and the Existential Challenges of Liberalism,” by Richard A. Boyd, in Carey McWilliams, ed. The Active Society Revisited. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
“‘Must We Overlook All Impairment of Our Interests?’ Debating the Foreign Aid Role of the Export-Import Bank, 1934–1941,” by Michael Adamson. Diplomatic History 29 (September 2005): 589–623.
“The Naked Newscaster, Girls Gone Wild, and Paris Hilton: True Tales of the Right of Privacy and the First Amendment,” by Joseph Siprut. 16 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L. J. 35 (2006).
“Natural Law and Evolutionary Conservatism,” by Matt Zwolinski. San Diego Law Review, 42:3 (2005).
New Voices on Adam Smith, edited by Eric Schliesser, with Leonidas Montes. London: Routledge, 2006.
“On the Role of the State in the Borderless World,” by Jamus Lim. Globalization 5:2 (Dec 2005).
“Organizing the Socio-Legal Study of Business Associations,” by Paul S. Edwards. Berkley Business Law Journal, 2:1-2(2005): 53-58.
“The Overreach of Political Education and Liberalism’s Philosopher-Democrat,” by Geoffrey M. Vaughan. Polity, 37:3 (2005): 389-408.
“The Parables of Octavia Butler: A Science-Fiction Writer's Rich Libertarian Legacy,” by Amy H. Sturgis. Reason (June 2006).
“The People's Romance: Why People Love Government as Much as They Do,” by Daniel B. Klein. Independent Review 10:1(Summer 2005):5-38.
“Policy Watch: Reform of the U.S. Postal Service,” by R. Richard Geddes. Journal of Economic Perspectives 19:3 (Summer 2005): 217-232.
“Positive Externalities and Government Involvement in Education,” by Joshua Hall. Journal of Private Enterprise vol. 21, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 165-175.
“Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush,” by Gene Healy and Timothy Lynch. Cato Institute White Paper, April 4, 2006.
“Preaching to the Converted? The Limits of Religious Arguments in Politics,” by Jonathan Crowe. Policy 21:4 (2005): 29-33.
“Property Rights and Incentives to Invest in Seed Varieties: Governmental Regulations in the Case of Argentina,” by Andres A. Gallo & Jay Kesan. AgBioForum, 8:2-3 3 (2005):118-126.
“The Push for Price Controls: Good Politics, Bad Economics,” by Mario Villarreal. Baltimore Sun (September 29, 2005).
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement by Brian Doherty. PublicAffairs. 2007.
Rational Ignorance and Democratic Deliberation: A Theory of Discourse Failure, by Guido Pincione and Fernando R. Tesón. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Rethinking Mill’s Ethics: Character and Aesthetic Education , by Colin Heydt. London: Thoemmes/Continuum Press, 2006.
Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought by Holly Hamilton-Bleakley, Annabel Brett, and James Tully. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism, by John E. Moser. New York University Press, 2005.
“Rule of the Fox: A Review of Isaiah Berlin: Letters 1928-1946,” by Justin Shubow. The Common Review 4 (Summer 2005): 42-47.
Sanctifying the World: Christopher Dawson and the Creativity of Christendom, by Bradley J. Birzer. ISI/Christendom College Press, 2006.
“Self-Control in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: The Role of Trial Spacing and an Interfering Task.” (p 273-284) Edmund Fantino, Santino C. Gaitan, Stephen Meyer, Stephanie Stolarz-Fantino. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Volume 19: 3 (July 2006).
“Self-Ownership and the Limits of Libertarianism,” by Robert S.Taylor. Social Theory and Practice, October 2005, 31(4): 465-82.
“Sexual Orientation, Exit, and Refuge,” by Jacob T. Levy, in Jeff Spinner-Halev and Avigail Eisenberg eds., Minorities within Minorities, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
“Shifting Priorities: Congressional Incentives and the Homeland Security Granting Process,” by Patrick S Roberts. Review of Policy Research, 22:4, July-August 2005.
“Sociology and Classical Liberalism,” by Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern. Independent Review 11.1 (Summer 2006): p37(16).
“‘Sounds Suspiciously like Property Treatment’: Does Human Tissue Fit within the Common Law Concept of Property?” By Imogen Goold. UTS Law Review/Santa Clara Journal of International Law (2005) Special joint issue.
Stakes and Kidneys: Why Markets in Human Body Parts Are Morally Imperative, edited by James Stacey Taylor. Ashgate Publishing, 2005.
“State Autonomy and American Political Development: How Mass Democracy Promoted State Power,” by Samuel DeCanio. Studies in American Political Development 19:2(2006):117-136.
“Sweatshops,” by Matt Zwolinski, in Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia, James Climent, ed. M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
“The Third Wave: the Alien Tort Statute and the War on Terrorism,” by Julian Ku. 19 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 205 (2005).
“Tort Law and In-Vitro Fertilization: The Need for Legal Recognition of Procreative Injury,” by Joshua Kleinfeld. Yale Law Journal 115:1(October 2005): 237.
“The Truth Is Out There …But Too Much of It Is Still Classified,” by Stephen F. Hayes. Weekly Standard (Nov 28, 2005).
“The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor - and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!” by Tim Harford. (Book review by Robert Formaini.). The Cato Journal 26.1 (Winter 2006):204-208.
Understanding Ethical Failures in Leadership, by Terry L. Price. Cambridge Press, 2006.
“Wasteful Spending by Colorado Government,” by Ari Armstrong. Independence Institute (Sep 2005).
“William Rehnquist, the Separation of Powers, and the Riddle of the Sphinx,” by Tuan N. Samahon and Jay S. Bybee. Stanford L. Rev. (May 2006).
