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...consequences of and motivations behind this choice. Perhaps the most divisive question about the use of military force is the concept of the "moral war," where the use of the military is constructed as a force of compassion. The "moral war" has coaxed typically liberal and anti-interventionist people into advocating militarism, most recently in Somalia and Bosnia. However dire the situations may be in these two countries, even a cursory examination in each case reveals that the moral high ground the United States takes is inconsistent with its policy. The United States went into Somalia to help starving people...
...longtime Boston Globe columnist is able to take complex aspects of econometric theory and make them simple. He is able to take dry debates over interventionist versus laissez-faire governments and make them come alive. And he does so without diminishing the level of debate ands scholarship behind the many conflicting theories and theoretical styles...
...this introduction, Warsh calls this the "social world of economics," It's world that includes interesting little tidbits perfect for cocktail party conversation--like the fact that John Maynard Keynes, the force behind interventionist government theory, was " a fairly promiscuous, always intense denizen of a hot-house society...
...state somewhere between 48th and 50th in every key indicator. Second, it is a crucial moment in the history of global economic development. The world is moving toward the U.S., toward market-oriented systems. It would be a highly regrettable irony for America to head toward a highly interventionist, European-style system of the type Governor Clinton would produce. Those have failed...
Although its founders agree that the magazinedoes not have a political agenda, Kuttner said theProspect supports an "interventionist viewof American liberalism...