Volume 19

Number 2

Fall

2014

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Articles

Perfecting Tyranny: Foreign Intervention as Experimentation in State Control

Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall

Repudiation in Antebellum Mississippi

Clifford F. Thies

Let’s Focus on Victim Justice, Not Criminal Justice

Bruce L. Benson

Incumbent Vertical Market Power, Experimentation, and Institutional Design in the Deregulating Electricity Industry

L. Lynne Kiesling

Reflections

The Real Case against Activist Global Warming Policy

James L. Payne

Book Reviews

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces

By Radley Balko
Reviewed by
Anthony Gregory

The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

By Niall Ferguson
Reviewed by
Samuel Gregg

Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What It Means for Our Economic Well-Being

By Zoltan J. Acs
Reviewed by
Gordon E. Shockley

The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

By Yuval Levin
Reviewed by
James A. Montanye

Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter

By Ilya Somin
Reviewed by
Scott A. Beaulier

James Madison and the Making of America

By Kevin R. C. Gutzman
Reviewed by
Michael J. Faber

America’s Fiscal Constitution: Its Triumph and Collapse

By Bill White
Reviewed by
Burton A. Abrams

Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain

By Katherine C. Epstein
Reviewed by
Thomas K. Duncan

The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World

By Douglas W. Allen
Reviewed by
William F. Shughart II

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

By Angus Deaton
Reviewed by
William R. Keech

Ambition, a History: From Vice to Virtue

By William Casey King
Reviewed by
James A. Montanye

Etceteras

Ronald Coase, Anomalous Superstar of the Economics Profession

Robert Higgs

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