Archive for Joan Kennedy Taylor
Book Review: In Pursuit Of Happiness And Good Government by Charles Murray
Simon and Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 • 1988 • 301 pages • $17.95 cloth The 1988 national election campaign offered a contest over whether Republicans or Democrats could create more and better social programs to help the family, educate and care for children, and above all, alleviate poverty. “Poverty,” [...]
1Jan1989 | Joan Kennedy Taylor | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain by Richard A. Epstein
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England • 362 pages, $25.00 cloth Eminent domain is generally regarded as a power of government, not as a limitation on government. But this brilliant new book has the intriguing thesis that the eminent domain or (“takings”) clause of the United States Constitution, properly understood, provides clear limits [...]
1May1986 | Joan Kennedy Taylor | 1 comment | Continued-
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