- Hoover Institution Press: The Second Twentieth Century: How the Information Revolution...
STANFORD, Calif. -- The worldwide wave of democratization and the nearly total disappearance of communism at the end of the twentieth century were major economic ......
- THE POLITICS OF SHAME VS. GUILT
David Guttman is professor emeritus of psychology at Northwestern University Medical School. He writes in The American Enterprise (December 2003): Human societies can be loosely ......
- The Economics of Non-Human
Societies.
Like many students who entered the economic graduate program at VPI during the mid-1970s, I worried that Professor Tullock would, at some social gathering, select ......
- BALLE BEAT
THE HUMAN SPECIES is entering a period of dramatic and potentially devastating change as the result of forces of our own creation that are now ......
- Social innovation forum. (What's New on
Wfs.org).
Philadelphia's Main Line is famous as a string of commuter towns alongside a railroad. In "New Urban Concepts," urban development consultant Howard Kiefer takes the ......
- Civilization And Its Enemies
Once upon a time, human societies—oh, say, Sparta—found it necessary to declare certain humans enemies, chase them down, and kill them, maybe enslaving their women ......
- Human Accomplishment
Never let it be said that Murray (What It Means to Be a Libertarian, 1997, etc.), co-author of the hotly debated Bell Curve (not reviewed), ......
- THE POLITICS OF SHAME VS. GUILT
David Guttman is professor emeritus of psychology at Northwestern University Medical School. He writes in The American Enterprise (December 2003): Human societies can be loosely ......
- Survival of the fittest.
Darwin and International Relations is an outstanding contribution to both international relations theory and social sciences. At a time when academics often specialize narrowly in ......
- Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation
Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, edited by Peter Hammerstein. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2003. ISBN 0262083264, $45.00. 450 pages. This book is about the emergence ......
- Feedback.
* Revisiting Global Governance In Maurice Strong's article, "Reforming the United Nations" (September-October 2001), the author states that, because "even the strongest of national governments ......
- Guns, Germs, And Steel
Dr. Jared Diamond is one of our really smart guys. He's a UCLA professor of many things (geography, physiology, environmental health) and knows volumes about ......