Aldous Huxley's Brave New World paints a dark picture of a future society that deifies scientific progress. In Huxley's "Utopia," science controls individual opportunity and, hence, destiny. Heredity shapes the individual's place in society, so that from the moment of conception, a person's...

This article discusses the 2001 decision of the European Commission (EC) to block the GE/Honeywell merger, after it was approved by the Antitrust Division in the United States. The authors contend that the EC's decision reflects a rekindling of the fundamental battle between economic...

This paper examines the house price boom that occurred simultaneously in the United States and in a number of European countries in 2003 to 2007. In the United States, Spain, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark, a house price boom peaked in 2007 and, in each case, was accompanied by a...