Volume 23  Number 2  •  Fall 2018

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In this issue...

Gordon Tullock’s Legacy: An Introduction
By Virgil Henry Storr

Gordon Tullock, Praxeology, and the Qualities of a Natural-Born Misesian
By Peter J. Boettke, Rosolino A. Candela

Gordon Tullock’s Scholarly Legacy: Extracting It from Buchanan’s Shadow
By Richard E. Wagner

Gordon Tullock’s Critique of the Common Law
By William F. Shughart II

Gordon Tullock on Inequality and Redistribution
By Randall G. Holcombe

The Coase Theorem, Applied to Markets and Government
By Randall G. Holcombe

Why the Worst Get on Top: Corruption in Democracies
By R. Morris Coats, Jeremy T. Schwartz, Gökhan Karahan

The Best Cases of “Actually Existing Socialism”
By Ryan H. Murphy

What Is “Actually Existing Socialism”?
By Michael C. Munger

Reply to Michael C. Munger
By Ryan H. Murphy

Behind the Model: A Constructive Critique of Economic Modeling
By Peter Spiegler
Reviewed by Peter Gordon

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
By Dennis C. Rasmussen
Reviewed by Paul Mueller

La grande illusion: Comment la France a perdu la paix, 1914–1920
By Georges-Henri Soutou
Reviewed by Paul Gottfried

In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
By Alfred W. McCoy
Reviewed by Christopher J. Coyne

How Democracies Die
By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Reviewed by Rosolino A. Candela

Pricing Lives: Guideposts for a Safer Society
By W. Kip Viscusi
Reviewed by James Broughel

Social Class and State Power: Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition
By Editors: David Hart, Gary Chartier, Ross Miller Kenyon and Roderick Long
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger

Space Capitalism: How Humans Will Colonize Planets, Moons, and Asteroids
By Peter Lothian Nelson and Walter Block
Reviewed by Alexander William Salter

Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy
By Nicholas Tampio
Reviewed by Richard Phelps

Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies: The Bloomington School and Beyond
Edited by Filippo Sabetti and Dario Castiglione
Reviewed by Emily C. Skarbek

The Infinite Desire for Growth
By Daniel Cohen
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Against the Whole Concept and Construction of the Balance of International Payments
By Robert Higgs