Volume 22

Number 2

Fall

2017

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Articles

The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution

Robert M. Whaples

The Black Swan of the Russian Revolution

Paul R. Gregory

Chaos and Utopia: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution and Civil War

Peter Mentzel

Mass Murder and Public Slavery: The Soviet Experience

Yuri N. Maltsev

A Legacy of Lies and Lost Souls: The Russian Revolution at One Hundred Years

Peter J. Boettke

The Soviet Economy, 1917–1991: Its Life and Afterlife

Mark Harrison

Lessons from Revolutions: Development Takes Time

Jerry F. Hough

Weaponization of Sports: The Battle for World Influence through Sporting Success

Dennis C. Coates

How Paper Money Led to the Mongol Conquest: Money and the Collapse of Song China

Peter St. Onge

The Diseconomies of Do-It-Yourself

Ryan H. Murphy

Campus Sexual Assault: What We Know and What We Don’t

William R. Beaver

Passing the Affordable Care Act: Transaction Costs, Legerdemain, Acquisition of Control

Charlotte Twight

Reflections

Realism about Political Philosophy

Nicholas Rescher

Book Reviews

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

By Robert H. Frank
Reviewed by
Steven G. Horwitz

The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption

By Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Reviewed by
Jamie Bologna Pavlik

Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays

Edited by Edward Younkins
Reviewed by
Cecil E. Bohanon

The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do about It

By Timothy Sandefur
Reviewed by
Adam Thierer

For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good

By Samuel Gregg
Reviewed by
Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr.

American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It; Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission

Reviewed by
Christopher J. Coyne

Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography

By Vlad Tarko
Reviewed by
Jayme Lemke

Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present

By Nicholas Capaldi and Gordon Lloyd
Reviewed by
Greg Randolph

Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States

Edited by Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis
Reviewed by
Vlad Tarko

A Pope and A President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the Twentieth Century

By Paul Kengor
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Etceteras

Freedom of Movement—the Sine Qua Non of Economic Prosperity and Progress

Robert Higgs

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