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# Spring/​Summer 1985 

Vol. 5 No. 1 

The Political Economy of Poverty

##### Articles 

#### [Have Antipoverty Programs Increased Poverty? ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/have-antipoverty-programs-increased-poverty)

By [James D. Gwartney](https://www.cato.org/people/james-gwartney) and Thomas S. McCaleb 

#### [The Politics of Poverty and the Poverty of Politics ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/politics-poverty-poverty-politics)

By Dwight R. Lee 

#### [The Poverty of Nations ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/poverty-nations)

By Karl Brunner 

#### [Property Rights, Land Reform, and Economic Well-Being ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/property-rights-land-reform-economic-well-being)

By Victor Canto 

#### [Resources, People, and the Neomalthusian Fallacy ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/resources-people-neomalthusian-fallacy)

By David Osterfeld 

#### [A Public Choice View of the Minimum Wage ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/public-choice-view-minimum-wage)

By Thomas Rustici 

#### [In Defense of the Invisible Hand ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/defense-invisible-hand)

By Norman P. Barry 

#### [End the Postal Monopoly ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/end-postal-monopoly)

#### [Is Social Security Politically Untouchable? ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/social-security-politically-untouchable)

By [Loren Lomasky](https://www.cato.org/people/loren-lomasky) 

#### [The Safety and Efficacy of New Drug Approval ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/safety-efficacy-new-drug-approval)

By Dale H. Gieringer 

#### [Labor Law and the First Amendment ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/labor-law-first-amendment)

By Charles W. Baird 

#### [Deregulating Urban Transportation ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/deregulating-urban-transportation)

By Robert Cervero 

#### [Job Protection in Urban Mass Transit ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/job-protection-urban-mass-transit)

By Simon Rottenberg 

#### [Rights, Contract, and Utility in Policy Espousal ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/rights-contract-utility-policy-espousal)

By [Leland B. Yeager](https://www.cato.org/people/leland-yeager) 

#### [Life in the Gulag: A Property Rights Perspective ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/life-gulag-property-rights-perspective)

By Gary M. Anderson and Robert Tollison 

#### [State Education: Have Economists Made a Case? ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/state-education-have-economists-made-case)

By Jack High 

#### [Privatization: A Strategy to Cut the Budget ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/privatization-strategy-cut-budget)

By Stuart Butler 

#### [The National Budget Referendum: Proceed with Caution ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/national-budget-referendum-proceed-caution)

By Bruce R. Bolnick 

#### [Reply to The National Budget Referendum: Proceed with Caution ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/reply-national-budget-referendum-proceed-caution)

By Roger A. Arnold and Thomas L. Wyrick 

##### Book Review 

##### [*Political Economy and Freedom* by Gertrude E. Schroeder](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/political-economy-freedom-gertrude-e-schroeder)

By G. Warren Nutter 

##### [*Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America* by Morgan O. Reynolds](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/power-privilege-labor-unions-america-morgan-o-reynolds)

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo 

##### [*The Theory of Public Choice — II* Edited by James M. Buchanan and Robert D. Tollison](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1985/theory-public-choice-ii-edited-james-m-buchanan-robert-d-tollison)

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