Tribute to William H. Rehnquist

The casket was plain unvarnished pine, and over it was draped the American flag. As my fellow Rehnquist clerks and I carried that casket up the marble steps of the Supreme Court building, to the Great Hall, it occurred to a number of us that this was very fitting. For Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was direct, straightforward, utterly without pretense—and a patriot who loved and served his country.     

Isaac Sherman and the trials of gilded age liberalism

Isaac Sherman (1817-81) was a self-made New York merchant and financier. Originally a Barnburner Jacksonian Democrat, he became a Free Soiler and in 1856 a campaign manager for Republican John C. Fremont. An influential Unionist, Sherman subsequently became a self-taught expert on railroad finance, currency, and local and state taxation. This article draws upon the Sherman papers recently acquired by the Huntington Library to offer an interpretive biography of this hitherto obscure but important railroad financier and laissez-faire ideologue. Sherman's activities show the personal and intellectual connections between the Equal Rights and Free Labor ideologies of the pre-war years and the Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism of the post-war period. They also reveal the anxieties of the haute bourgeoisie of the Gilded Age, and the legal stratagems used by Sherman and others to return the United States to the gold standard and overturn the Federal income tax. Finally, Sherman's proposals for local and state tax reform, conterminous with and similar to those of Henry George, reveal the limits of classical liberalism in both its laissez-faire and utopian forms.     

对施坚雅市场理论的若干思考

施坚雅的市场理论在中外学术界影响巨大,然而,其与中国的实际情况存在差距又是一个十分明显的事实。本顺着施坚雅的思路,采用同样的规则,对其市场空间模型、密集循环过程、市场社区理论等,设想出了一些不同的可能性,探讨了理论抽象与实证研究的差异。不是解读,不是批评,不是质疑,也不是商榷,只能说是对一些问题的思考。     

William Wirt

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