Humane Studies Review - Summer 1987

A Research and Study Guide

PDF Version Institute for Humane Studies 6/1/1987

Volume 4, Number 3

Inside HSR:

• What new potion is being brewed by the mixture of welfare economics and political philosophy? Economist Tyler Cowen reviews the literature. 
  
• What was the role of liberal thought in the early American Republic? Were the Jeffersonians simply "agrarians," or were they opposed to state capitalism? Historian Rick Vernier examines the issues and the evidence.
  
• Are there natural rights? What ground could they have? Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Patrick Steinbauer examine philosopher Henry Veatch's ambitious and original contribution to the debate.