$40 billion in 1979.
Industrial policy's promoters are wrong not only about the United States, Schultze says, but about Japan as well. They attribute Japan's postwar economic "miracle" to deft coordination of industry Tokyo's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). But if that is so, Schultze says, MITI has lost its touch: Japan's gross national product grew at a vigorous 9.9 percent annual rate from 1960 to 1973 but has averaged only 3.5 percent since.
In fact, writes Schultze,...
"Higher Education's Future" Herbert
Going to College L. Smith, in American Demographics
(Sept. 1983), P.O. Box 68, Ithaca, N.Y.
May Get Easier 14850.
As the tail end of the Baby-Boom generation nears its 30s, U.S. college presidents are bracing themselves for declining enrollments and years of financial belt-tightening. But things may not turn out all that badly, according to Smith, an Indiana University sociologist.
On the face of it, he concedes, the future for American inst...
James Q. Wilson, in The Atlantic (Oct. 1983), Box 2547, Boul- der, Colo. 80322.
Psychologists perplexed violent or overly aggressive children have come up with a host of theories to explain their behavior-faulty genes, broken homes, and the Oedipal complex. But more and more evidence points to a simpler view, writes Wilson, a Harvard political scientist: "Incompetent" parents raise bad kids.
The notion that families might be responsible for growing delin- quency was unpopular among social...
Sher-Superstars' win Rosen, in The American Scholar
(Autumn 1983), 181 1 Q St. N.W., Wash- Fat Salaries ington, D.C. 20009.
Are top baseball players, television news anchors, or rock singers worth the millions of dollars they can earn each year? Yes, argues Rosen, a University of Chicago economist.
Just a few decades ago, such figures were simply "stars." Today, they are called "superstars," an apt inflation in nomenclature, says Rosen, given the vastly expanded audiences...
John Rob-
In One Ear, inson and Mark Levy, in The Washington
Out the Other Journalism Review (Oct. 1983), 2233 Wis-
consin Ave. N.W., Suite 442, Washington,
D.C. 20007.
The national news media seem to have an annoying penchant for beat- ing stories to death-for example, Nancy Reagan's china. But accord- ing to Robinson and Levy, researcher and journalism professor, respectively, at the University of Maryland, journalists should stick with some stories much longer than they do now.
Last May...
R. Jeffrey Smith,
in The Columbia Journalism Review
For Nothing (Sept.-Oct. 1983), 200 Alton PI., Marion,
Ohio 43302.
One morning last March, a Washington Post headline announced: EPA FIASCO: THE SYSTEM WORKS! The "system" was the check on bu- reaucratic malfeasance imposed a vigilant press. But Smith, a Science magazine writer, doubts that such journalistic self-congratulations are in order.
Actually, he argues, reporters (especially those in Washington) ig- nored red flags at the...
PERIODICALS
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
Is "What Are Philosophers For?" byPhilt~~~phy Richard Rorty, in The Center Magazine (Sept.-Oct. 1983), Center for the Study of Philosophers Do Democratic Institutions, P.O. Box 4068,
Santa Barbara, Cal. 93103.
Few contemporary philosophers grapple with political and social is- sues in the way that Plato, John Locke, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. Where, one might ask, have all the sages gone?
"Only a Philistine would ask such a question," a...
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PERIODICALS
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
Is "What Are Philosophers For?" byPhilt~~~phy Richard Rorty, in The Center Magazine (Sept.-Oct. 1983), Center for the Study of Philosophers Do Democratic Institutions, P.O. Box 4068,
Santa Barbara, Cal. 93103.
Few contemporary philosophers grapple with political and social is- sues in the way that Plato, John Locke, or Jean-Jacques Rousseau did. Where, one might ask, have all the sages gone?
"Only a Philistine would ask such a q...
Shirley Robin
Letwin, in Policy Review (Fall 1983), The
Heritage ~oundation, 214 MassachusettsJudges Decide Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
"Courts are mere instruments of the law," declared Chief Justice John Marshall in 1824, "and can will nothing." After a long allegiance to ju- dicial activism, Anglo-American legal theorists appear to be returning to something like Marshall's traditional "rule of law" jurisprudence. But appearances, warns Letwin, a British...
Janet Raloff, in Science News,
(Aug. 20 & Sept. 10, 1983), 1719 N St.
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
For some people, violent behavior could be a matter of chemistry.
William Walsh, a chemical analyst at the Argonne National Labora- tory near Chicago, has been studying the crime-chemistry link in his spare time for 17 years, reports Raloff, a Science News editor.
Last spring, Walsh released the results of a five-year-long study com- paring concentrations of metallic "trace elementsu-calcium,...