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Cato Journal
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Policy Analysis
Volume 19, Number 1, Spring/Summer 1999

Articles

Anna J. Schwartz
Is There a Need for an International Lender of Last Resort? (PDF, 6pp, 18Kb)

Harold J. Brumm

Rent Seeking and Economic Growth: Evidence from the States (PDF, 10pp, 51Kb)

Kelley B. Olds
Public Export Inspections in the United States and Their Privatization (PDF, 21pp, 68Kb)

Kevin Dowd
Does Asymmetric Information Justify Bank Capital Adequacy Regulation (PDF, 9pp, 30Kb)

David Schap and Andrew T. Young
Enterprise and Biodiversity: Do Market Forces Yield Diversity of Life? (PDF, 19pp, 62Kb)

Curtis A. Pendergraft
Managing Planet Earth; Adaptation and Cosmology (PDF, 15pp, 45Kb)

Douglas Coate and James VanderHoff
Public School Spending and Student Achievement: The Case of New Jersey (PDF, 16pp, 45Kb)

Edward T. Gullason
The Labor Market Status of Women (PDF, 18pp, 76Kb)

Robert Kaestner
Employment Prospects of Welfare Recipients: Another Look at the Data (PDF, 23pp, 69Kb)

Lorenzo Bernaldo de Quirós
The European Monetary Union: A Political Time Bomb (PDF, 18pp, 53Kb)

Communications

William Coleman
A Brief History of the Australian Notes Issue Board, 1920-24 (PDF, 10pp, 30Kb)

Michael Brooks
Politics as the Art of Confined Compromise: A Comment on Boudreaux and Lee (PDF, 10pp, 35Kb)

Book Reviews (PDF, 13pp, 40Kb)

Policy Analysis and Public Choice by William Niskanen
Reviewed by Thomas D. Willett

Globaphobia: Confronting Fears about Open Trade by Gary Burtless, Robert Z. Lawrence, Robert E. Litan, and Robert J. Shapiro
Reviewed by Daniel T. Griswold

Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance by Deepak Lal
Reviewed by Stanley L. Engerman

Institutional Economics: Social Order and Public Policy by Wolfgang Kasper and Manfred E. Streit
Reviewed by Gerald Radnitzky