contents NUMBER ONE—JANUARY Preface and Acknowledgments—Sieven V. Hicks and Daniel E. Shannon, 1 Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom— Steven V. Hicks, 7 PART I: GLOBAL JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY, AND UNIVERSAL DIALOGUE 1. From a State of War to Perpetual Peace—Edward Demenchonok, 25 2. Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason—Karl-Otto Apel, 49 3. Rethinking Global Justice from the Perspective of All Living Nature and What Difference it Makes—J/James P. Sterha, 71 +. Human Rights, Global Justice, and Disaggregated States: John Rawls, Onora O'Neill, and Anne-Marie Slaughter—Alyssa R. Bernstein, 87 PART II: RETHINKING NATURE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE CHALLENGES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS 5. Beyond Intrinsic Value: Undermining the Justication of Ecoterrorism—Charles S. Brown, 113 6. Does Kant Have Anything to Teach Us about Environmental Ethics?—Marce Lucht, 127 PART Ili: RETHINKING CULTURE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE CHALLENGES OF INTERCULTURALITY . A Cultural Critique of Cultural Relativism—Xiaorong Li, 151 8. Culture, Evil, and Horror—Paul Santilli, 173 PART IV: RETHINKING FREEDOM: PERSONS AND THE CHALLENGES OF AUTONOMY 9. Persons: Natural, Functional, or Ethical Kind?—John P. Lizza, 195 1054 The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 10. The Subject of Freedom at the End of History: Socialism Beyond Humanism—/John Sanbonmatsu, 217 PART V: CONCLUSION: THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION—A NON-WESTERN PERSPECTIVE 11. A Rediscovery of Heaven-and-Human Oneness—Keping Wang, 237 NUMBER TWO—APRIL Editor’s Introduction, 261 REFLECTIONS AND SELF-REFLECTIONS ON THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION Economists’ Opinions of Economists’ Work— William L. Davis, 267 The Input Relationship Between Co-Authors in Economics: A Production Function Approach—Marshali H. Medoff; 289 Is There a Free-Market Economist in the House? The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members—Daniel B. Klein and Charlotta Stern, 309 What Do Economists Talk About? A Linguistic Analysis of Published Writing in Economic Journals—Nils Goldschmidt and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi, 335 FOCUS ON ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY Theory, Reality, and Performativity in Markets—Patrik Aspers, 379 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POLITICS PAC Congressional Election Campaign Contributions and Other Political or Economic Influences on the Voter Participation Rate— Richard J. Cebula, 399 Are Congressional Black Caucus Members More Reliable? Loyalty Screening and Committee Assignments of Newly Elected Legislators—Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. and Amanda C. Pagels, 413 THE ECONOMICS OF HOUSING HOPE VI Housing Program: Was it Effective?—Michael Brazley and Jobn 1. Gilderbloom, 433 Index to Volume 66 Testing a Hazard Model for the Housing Market in New Orleans—Amaresh Das, 443 SHORTER ESSAY The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard— Walter Block, Per Henrik Hansen, and Peter G. Klein, 457 NUMBER THREE—JULY Introduction, vii INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND PLACING A BET What Do Bettors Want? Determinants of Pari-Mutuel Betting Preference—Marshall Gramm, C. Nicholas McKinney, Douglas H. Owens, and Matt E. Ryan, 405 The Double-Auction Gambling Market: An Experimental Examination—Kyle W. Hampton, 493 THREE PERSPECTIVES ON GOVERNMENT RUN LOTTERIES State Lotteries and Agency Costs: Hidden Costs to Nonparticipants—Richard B. Whitaker, 533 Hitting the Jackpot or Hitting the Skids: Entertainment, Poverty, and the Demand for State Lotteries—Garrick Blalock, David R. Just, and Daniel H. Simon, 545 Voting with a Hand on the Bible and Not on the Wallet: The 1996 Video Poker Referendum in Louisiana—John L. Scott and Paul S. Nelson, 571 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CASINOS Do Casinos Cause Economic Growth?—Douglas M. Walker and John D. Jackson, 593 BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS Problems in Quantifying the Social Costs and Benefits of Gambling—Douglas M. Walker, 609 1056 The American Journal of Economics and Sociology NUMBER FOUR—OCTOBER Frontispiece (Portrait of Ohrenstein); iii Editor’s Introduction, v ROMAN A. OHRENSTEIN’S CONTRIBUTIONS My Life, My Times, and My Research: An Autobiographical Sketch— Roman A. Obrenstein, 047 The Talmudic Doctrine of “The Benefit of a Pleasure”: Psychological Well-Being in Talmudic Literature—Roman A. Obrenstein, 661 ECONOMICS AND RELIGION The Pelagian Controversy: An Economic Analysis—Jobn H. Beck, 081 The “Sect Effect” in Charitable Giving: Distinctive Realities of Exclusively Religious Charitable Givers—Russell N. James III and Deanna L. Sharpe, 697 The Agency Relationship in Churches: An Empirical Analysis— Charles Zech, 727 Religious Market Competition and Clergy Salary: Evidence from SBC Congregations in the South—Michelle W. Trawick and Stephen E. Lile, 74 COMPARITIVE INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS Religion and International Trade: Does the Sharing of a Religious Culture Facilitate the Formation of Trade Networks?—/oshuaJ . Lewer and Hendrik Van den Ber, 705 Protestantism, Labor Force Participation, and Employment Across Countries—Horst Feldmann, 795 Culture and Economic Systems—Frederic L. Pryor, 817 NUMBER FIVE—NVOVEMBER Frontispiece (Portrait of Candace Eleanor Genovese), iii Editor's Introduction, v Candace Eleanor Genovese: Memoriam, In Exaltation, and Dolor—Frank C. Genovese, 857 Index to Volume 66 1057 What If the Leader of the Central Bank Told Hilarious Jokes and Did Card Tricks? A Panel of Experts—Perry Mebrling, Laurence S. Moss, Jocelyn Pixley, and George S. Tavlas, 863 Reconciling Weber and Mises on Understanding Human Action— Gene Callahan, 889 SYMPOSIUM ON MEDICAL ECONOMICS Changes in the Effectiveness of State Medicaid Drug Program Cost-Containment Policies Following OBRA 1990— William J. Moore and Etienne E. Pracht, 901 The Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Per-Student Public Education Expenditures at the State Level: 1987—2000— Mark P. Gius, 925 OTHER ESSAYS A Scheme to Determine Tax Rates Fairly and Quantitatively— Qihou Zhou, 937 The Dangers of Automobile Travel: A Reconsideration— Roger Roots, 959 Against Both Private and Public Counterfeiting—Mateusz Machaj, 977 The Welfare Effects of the National Cooperative Research Act (NCRA) of 1984 and the National Cooperative Production Amendments (NCPA) of 1993—Yi Liu, Margaret O'Reilly-Allen, and Zaber Zantout, 985 Hostile Territory: High-Tension Religion and the Jewish Peddler—Colleen E.H. Berndt, 1005 BOOK REVIEWS Caroline Gerschlager, ed. (2005). Deception in Markets: An Economic Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan—Sheryl Tuttle Ross, 1029 Constructing a World Fit for Marxism: Utopia and Utopistics of Professor Wallerstein—Andrew Savchenko, 1033 Index, 1053 1058 The American Journal of Economics and Sociology INDEX OF CONTRIBUTORS APEL, Kart-Orro. 2. Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason, 49 Aspers, PATRIK. Theory, Reality, and Performativity in Markets, 379 BECK, JOHN H. The Pelagian Controversy: An Economic Analysis, 681 BERNDT, COLLEEN E. H. Hostile Territory: High-Tension Religion and the Jewish Peddler, 1005 BERNSTEIN, Alyssa R. 4. Human Rights, Global Justice, and Disaggregated States: John Rawls, Onora O'Neill, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, 87 BLALOCK, GARRICK, JUST David R. AND DANIEL H. SIMON. Hitting the Jackpot or Hitting the Skids: Entertainment, Poverty, and the Demand for State Lotteries, 545 BLock, WALTER, HANSEN PER HENRIK AND PETER G. KLEIN. The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard, 457 BRAZLEY, MICHAEL’ AND JOHN I. GILDERBLOOM. HOPE VI Housing Program: Was it Effective?, 433 BROWN, CHARLES S. 5. Beyond Intrinsic Value: Undermining the Justification of Ecoterrorism, 113 CALLAHAN, GENE. Reconciling Weber and Mises on Understanding Human Action, 889 CEBULA, RICHARD J. PAC Congressional Election Campaign Contributions and Other Political or Economic Influences on the Voter Participation Rate, 399 Das, AMARESH. Testing a Hazard Model for the Housing Market in New Orleans, 443 Davis, WILLIAM L. Economists’ Opinions of Economists’ Work, 267 DEMENCHONOK, EDWarD. 1. From a State of War to Perpetual Peace, 25 FELDMANN, Horst. Protestantism, Labor Force Participation, and Employment Across Countries, 795 GENOVESE, FRANK C. Candace Eleanor Genovese: Memoriam, In Exaltation, and Dolor, 857 Index to Volume 66 1059 Gius, MARK P. The Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Per-Student Public Education Expenditures at the State Level: 1987-2000, 925 GOLDSCHMIDT, NILS AND BENEDIKT SZMRECSANYI. What Do Economists Talk About? A Linguistic Analysis of Published Writing in Economic Journals, 335 GRAMM, MARSHALL, MCKINNEY C. NICHOLAS, OWENS DOUGLAS H. AND MATT E. RYAN. What Do Bettors Want? Determinants of Pari-Mutuel Betting Preference, 465 Hampton, KyLeE W. The Double-Auction Gambling Market: An Experimental Examination, 493 Hicks, STEVEN V. Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom, 7 Hicks, STEVEN V. AND DANIEL E. SHANNON. Preface and Acknowledgments, 1 James, Russett N. II] AND DEANNA L. SHARPE. The “Sect Effect” in Charitable Giving: Distinctive Realities of Exclusively Religious Charitable Givers, 697 KLEIN, DANIEL B. AND CHARLOTTA STERN. Is There a Free-Market Economist in the House? The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members, 309 LEWER, JOSHUA J. AND HENDRIK VAN DEN BERG. Religion and International Trade: Does the Sharing of a Religious Culture Facilitate the Formation of Trade Networks?, 765 Li, XIAORONG. 7. A Cultural Critique of Cultural Relativism, 151 Liv, Yi, O’REILLY-ALLEN MARGARET AND ZAHER ZANTOUT. The Welfare Effects of the National Cooperative Research (NCRA) of 1984 and the National Cooperative Production Amendment Act (NCPA) of 1993, 985 LizzA, JOHN P. 9. Persons: Natural, Functional, or Ethical Kind?, 195 Lucut, Marc. 6. Does Kant Have Anything to Teach Us about Environmental Ethics?, 127 Macnuaj, Mateusz. Against Both Private and Public Counterfeiting, 977 Meporr, MARSHALL H. The Input Relationship Between Co-Authors in Economics: A Production Function Approach, 289 1060 The American Journal of Economics and Sociology MEHRLING, PERRY, MOss LAURENCE S., PIXLEY JOCELYN and GEORGE S. Tavias. What If the Leader of the Central Bank Told Hilarious Jokes and Did Card Tricks? A Panel of Experts, 863 MIXON FRANKLIN G. Jr. AND AMANDA C. PAGELS. Are Congressional Black Caucus Members More Reliable? Loyalty Screening and Committee Assignments of Newly Elected Legislators, 413 Moore, WILLIAM J. and ETIENNE E. PracHtT. Changes in the Effectiveness of State Medicaid Drug Program Cost-Containment Policies Following OBRA 1990, 901 OHRENSTEIN, ROMAN A. My Life, My Times, and My Research: An Autobiographical Sketch, 647 OHRENSTEIN, ROMAN A. The Talmudic Doctrine of “The Benefit of a Pleasure”: Psychological Well-Being in Talmudic Literature, 661 Pryor, FREDERIC L. Culture and Economic Systems, 817 Roots, RoGER. The Dangers of Automobile Travel: A Reconsideration, 959 : Ross, SHERYL TUTTLE. Caroline Gerschlager, ed. (2005). Deception in Markets: An Economic Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, 1029 SANBONMATSU, JOHN. 10. The Subject of Freedom at the End of History: Socialism Beyond Humanism, 217 SANTILLI, PAUL. 8. Culture, Evil, and Horror, 173 SAVCHENKO, ANDREW. Constructing a World Fit for Marxism: Utopia and Utopistics of Professor Wallerstein, 1033 Scorr, JOHN L. AND PauL S. NELSON. Voting with a Hand on the Bible and Not on the Wallet: The 1996 Video Poker Referendum in Louisiana, 571 STERBA, JAMES P. 3. Rethinking Global Justice from the Perspective of All Living Nature and What Difference it Makes, 71 TRAWICK, MICHELLE W. AND STEPHEN E. LILeE. Religious Market Competition and Clergy Salary: Evidence from SBC Congregations tn the South, t WALKER, DOUGLAS M. AND JOHN D. JACKSON. Do Casinos Cause Economic Growth?, 593 Index to Volume 66 WALKER, DouGLas M. Problems in Quantifying the Social Costs and Benefits of Gambling, 609 WANG, KEPING. 11. A Rediscovery of Heaven-and-Human Oneness, 237 WHITAKER, RICHARD B. State Lotteries and Agency Costs: Hidden Costs to Nonparticipants, 533 ZECH, CHARLES. The Agency Relationship in Churches: An Empirical Analysis, 727 ZHOU, QtHOU. A Scheme to Determine Tax Rates Fairly and Quantitatively, 937