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# Spring/​Summer 1986 

Vol. 6 No. 1 

The Transfer Society

##### Articles 

#### [Introduction: The Transfer Society ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/introduction-transfer-society)

By [James A. Dorn](https://www.cato.org/people/james-dorn) 

#### [Losing Ground Two Years Later ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/losing-ground-two-years-later)

By Charles Murray 

#### [Welfare Dynamics and the Nature of Need ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/welfare-dynamics-nature-need)

By Greg J. Duncan and Saul U. Hoffman 

#### [Transfers and Poverty: Cause and/​or Effect? ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/transfers-poverty-cause-andor-effect)

By June O’Neill 

#### [Comment on Transfers and Poverty: Cause and/​or Effect? ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/comment-transfers-poverty-cause-andor-effect)

By Janet E. Kodras 

#### [The Cost of Reducing Economic Inequality ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/cost-reducing-economic-inequality)

By Edgar K. Browning and William B. Johnson 

#### [Transfers, Equality, and the Limits of Public Policy ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/transfers-equality-limits-public-policy)

By [James D. Gwartney](https://www.cato.org/people/james-gwartney) and [Richard L. Stroup](https://www.cato.org/people/richard-stroup) 

#### [Transitional Gains and Transfers ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/transitional-gains-transfers)

By Gordon Tullock 

#### [Wealth Transfers in a Rent-Seeking Polity ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/wealth-transfers-rent-seeking-polity)

By Richard E. Wagner 

#### [Economic Rents as a Barrier to Deregulation ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/economic-rents-barrier-deregulation)

By Robert W. Crandall 

#### [Intergenerational Transfers and Super IRAs ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/intergenerational-transfers-super-iras)

By [Peter J. Ferrara](https://www.cato.org/people/peter-ferrara) 

#### [Comment on Intergenerational Transfers and Super IRAs ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/comment-intergenerational-transfers-super-iras)

By A. Haeworth Robertson 

#### [The Political Economy of Work-for-Welfare ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/political-economy-work-welfare)

By S. Anna Kondratas 

#### [Comment on The Political Economy of Work-for-Welfare ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/comment-political-economy-work-welfare)

By William A. Darity, Jr. and Samuel L. Meyers, Jr. 

#### [Farm Commodity Programs as Income Transfers ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/farm-commodity-programs-income-transfers)

By Bruce Gardner 

#### [Comment on Farm Commodity Programs as Income Transfers ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/comment-farm-commodity-programs-income-transfers)

By E. C. Pasour, Jr. 

#### [Regulatory Transfers in Canadian/​American Agriculture: The Case of Supply Management ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/regulatory-transfers-canadianamerican-agriculture-case-supply)

By Bruce L. Benson and M. D. Faminow 

#### [Targeted Capital Subsidies and Economic Welfare ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/targeted-capital-subsidies-economic-welfare)

By Gary Fournier and David Rasmussen 

#### [Comment on Targeted Capital Subsidies and Economic Welfare ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/comment-targeted-capital-subsidies-economic-welfare)

By J. Ronnie Davis 

#### [Constraining the Transfer Society: Constitutional and Moral Dimensions ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/constraining-transfer-society-constitutional-moral-dimensions)

By Peter J. Hill 

#### [Comment on Constraining the Transfer Society: Constitutional and Moral Dimensions ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/comment-constraining-transfer-society-constitutional-moral-dimensions)

By Thomas S. McCaleb 

#### [A Constitutional Approach to Taxes and Transfers ](/cato-journal/spring/summer-1986/constitutional-approach-taxes-transfers)

By [William A. Niskanen](https://www.cato.org/people/william-niskanen) 

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