This paper studies the existence of spatial diffusion civil liberty among neighboring countries. For that purpose, we first combine different exploratory space-time data analysis approaches to find this phenomenon is spatially clustered and a convergence process at work world countries from 1985 2010, with structural change by end Twentieth century mainly due appearance Internet. Second, specif...

Human monocytic ehrlichiosis, one of the most frequent life-threatening tick-borne zoonoses, is caused by Ehrlichia chaffeensis that lacks endotoxin and peptidoglycan. While sequence polymorphisms in several genes in E. chaffeensis strains have been reported, global genomic divergence and biological differences among strains are unknown. The objectives of the present study were to compare the g...

This review essay considers Adrian Vermeule’s The System of the Constitution and Richard Epstein’s Design for Liberty. Vermeule’s contribution to the study of constitutions applies some essential tenets of systems thinking that are only barely evident in legal analysis and almost nonexistent in political science, and so if the book is widely read in both fields it has the potential to alter the...

The most essential ingredient embodied in the liberty championed by the classical liberal writers of the Enlightenment and beyond is individual choice and right of expression—the right of persons to say what they think, decide for themselves what groups that want to join, what religion that want to profess, what person they want to marry, what goods they want to buy or sell, and what persons th...

Until the twentieth century, economics and politics were studied together under the heading of political economy. Two major nineteenth-century treatises on the subject, by David Ricardo (1817) and John Stuart Mill (1848), had the title Principles of Political Economy. Toward the end of that century, the subdisciplines separated; the turning point might be marked by the publication of Alfred Mar...