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Close Assistant Editor,* The Independent Review <http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/promo.asp>*The Independent Institute <http://www.independent.org/>100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621-1428 (510) 632-1366 ext. 117 Phone (510) 568-6040 Fax [email protected] <http://independent.org/publications/tir/?issueID=63> *Subscribe today and get the next six issues for the price of four*!* <http://independent.org/store/tir/subscriptions.asp> ------------------------------ <http://independent.org/publications/tir/promo.asp> Volume 15, Number 2 (Fall 2010), 160 pages *Summary of Articles and Reviews **Articles: **Social Justice: Cultural Origins of a Perspective and a Theory <http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=800>**By Carl L. Bankston III *(Tulane University) The idea of "social justice" stems from cultural perspectives shaped by two developments of the late twentieth century: the rise of mass consumption and the heritage of the civil rights movement. The former fueled a growing preoccupation with wealth distribution, and the latter provided an energizing myth that animated the redistributive ethic. *Alasdair MacIntyre and F. A. Hayek on the Abuse of Reason **By Brandon Harnish* (Independent Scholar) MacIntyre and Hayek, starting from very different political, philosophical, and religious viewpoints, conclude that the Enlightenment's misunderstanding of rationality has sent the West in the wrong direction. For MacIntyre, that false road leads to emotivist ethics and nihilism, whereas for Hayek it leads to social engineering and serfdom. *Food Safety Regulation in the United States: An Empirical and Theoretical Examination **By Tomohide Yasuda* (Independent Scholar) Despite increases in the budgets of the government agencies that oversee food safety regulation, official statistics show no clear sign of reductions in food-borne-disease outbreaks and cases. The poor record of food safety regulations, combined with the practical impossibility of successful government intervention in the food safety market, means that government intervention cannot provide the level of food safety that consumers demand. *The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality <http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=803>**By Thomas J. DiLorenzo* (Loyola University Maryland) Contrary to popular perception, the Old West was much more peaceful than American cities are today. The real culture of violence on the frontier during the latter half of the nineteenth century sprang from the U.S. government's policies toward the Plains Indians. *Education A Bad Public Good? **By Jane S. Shaw* (John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy) Economists often defend public schooling on the grounds that education indirectly helps people who wouldn't pay voluntarily for the benefits they receive from it and thus would be undersupplied if left exclusively to private funding. Yet by the same reasoning, quality assurance in the government provision of services also creates uncompensated spillover benefits and thereby leads to a deficiency of quality in public schooling. *The Shaping of a Future President's Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson at "The Hopkins" <http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=805>**By Clifford F. Thies* (Shenandoah University) and *Gary M. Pecquet* (Central Michigan University) Woodrow Wilson entered graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University as a classical liberal in his economic views but departed as a progressive. His fateful transformation had much to do with his apprenticeship with Richard T. Ely, who disparaged the laissez-faire policy prescriptions and deductive methodology of classical economics. *Selling Laissez-faire Antiracism to the Black Masses: Rose Wilder Lane and the Pittsburgh Courier **By David T. Beito* (University of Alabama) and *Linda Royster Beito*(Stillman College) >From 1942 to 1945, libertarian writer Rose Wilder Lane penned a weekly column for the *Pittsburgh Courier*, the most widely read African American newspaper of the time. Her work for the paper was the most ambitious effort of any author during this period to promote laissez-faire ideas to a black audience. *Reflections: **Merdecracy **By James A. Montanye* (Independent Scholar) No single term aptly characterizes the vulgar essence of the fraud and corruption now rampant in the legislative process. The neologism *merdecracy *, along with its scatological subsidiary concepts, underscores the filthiness of current lawmaking practices. *Controversy: **Comment on Timothy Sandefur's "Some Problems with Spontaneous Order" **By Gus diZerega* (Independent Scholar) Timothy Sandefur's critique of F. A. Hayek's social thought (*The Independent Review*, Summer 2009) makes some legitimate criticisms of Hayek's ethical framework but is marred by a misunderstanding of what constitutes spontaneous order. Sandefur's mistake arises from his view of constructivist rationalism as the opposite of spontaneous order. *Reply to Gus diZerega **By Timothy Sandefur* (Pacific Legal Foundation) Hayek's observations regarding spontaneous order are interesting and helpful as a descriptive matter, but without something more they provide an insufficient basis for a critique of intentional planning. Criticizing efforts at constructivist rationalism simply on the grounds that they interfere with the spontaneous generation of social institutions is as nonsensical as telling a lion not to eat an antelope because doing so would be "bad for evolution." *Book Reviews: **Literature and the Economics of Liberty<http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=810>, edited by Paul Cantor and Stephen Cox **Reviewed by Allen Porter Mendenhall* (Temple University) The trouble with contemporary literary theory, according to Cantor and Cox, lies not with economic approaches to literary criticism, but with *bad *economic approaches. The contributors to *Literature and the Economics of Liberty*draw on the Austrian school of economics to shed light on the work of Miguel de Cervantes, Ben Johnson, Percy Shelley, Walt Whitman, H. G. Wells, Willa Cather, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann, and others. *Too Big to Save? 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