Volume 19

Number 1

Summer

2014

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The Imprudence of Macroprudential Policy

Alexander William Salter

Corporate Influence and Political Corruption: Lessons from Stock Market Reactions to Political Events

Jeffrey Milyo

The Two Moralities of the Minimum Wage

Dwight R. Lee

Sin Taxes and Sindustry: Revenue, Paternalism, and Political Interest

Adam J. Hoffer, William F. Shughart II, Michael D. Thomas

Human Freedom: From Pericles to Measurement

Fred McMahon, Alan Dowd

Jimmy Carter, Alfred Kahn, and Airline Deregulation: Anatomy of a Policy Success

John Howard Brown

Ronald Coase: An Appreciation

John V. C. Nye

Meet the Old Sweatshops: Same as the New

Benjamin Powell

Book Reviews

U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure

By Peter Grossman
Reviewed by
L. Lynne Kiesling

The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present

By Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel
Reviewed by
Richard L. Stroup

The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible

By Geoffrey P. Miller
Reviewed by
Paul R. Abramson

Exploring Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film

By Edward W. Younkins
Reviewed by
Allen Porter Mendenhall

The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future

By Paul Sabin
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Free Our Markets: A Citizens’ Guide to Essential Economics

By Howard Baetjer Jr.
Reviewed by
Joseph Connors

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey

By Michael Huemer
Reviewed by
Aeon J. Skoble

Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change

By Wayne A. Leighton and Edward López
Reviewed by
Lawrence W. Kenny

Etceteras

The Fed’s Immiseration of People Who Live on Interest Earnings

Robert Higgs

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