Volume 21

Number 4

Spring

2017

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Articles

Hamilton on Broadway and the Founding in American Culture: An Introduction

Matthew E. Brown

A Founding, If You Can Keep It

Matthew E. Brown

Alexander Hamilton as Immigrant: Musical Mythology Meets Federalist Reality

Phillip W. Magness

Can Great Art Also Be Great History?

Kenneth Owen

Alexander Hamilton: The Wrong Hero for Our Age

Billy G. Smith

Hamilton’s Legacy and the Great Man Theory of Financial History

Edward P. Stringham

The Musical Hamilton from the Perspective of Financial History, in Verse

Robert E. Wright

Unfinished Business: Reflections on Canada’s Economic Transformation and the Work Ahead

Rahim Mohamed

Constitutional Drift and Political Dysfunction: Underappreciated Maladies of the Political Commons

Alexander William Salter

Is This North Carolina or Zimbabwe?: How Property Rights in North Carolina Deteriorated to the Level of a Third-World Country

Craig J. Richardson

Reflections

The New Wall Street and the High Cost of Manipulating Money

George F. Gilder

Book Reviews

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

By Virgil Henry Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, and Laura Grube
Reviewed by
Daniel J. Smith

Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking

Edited by Roger D. Congleton and Arye L. Hillman
Reviewed by
Jac C. Heckelman

God? Very Probably: Five Rational Ways to Think about the Question of a God

By Robert H. Nelson; Foreword by Herman Daly
Reviewed by
Charles Taliaferro

Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance

By Adair Turner
Reviewed by
Philipp Bagus

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

By Branko Milanovic
Reviewed by
William R. Keech

Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam Smith

By Cecil E. Bohanon, and Michelle Albert Vachris
Reviewed by
Carlos Rodríguez Braun

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

By Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels
Reviewed by
Tim Cox

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

By John Nixon
Reviewed by
Christopher J. Coyne

The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

By David Golumbia
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

The Language of Economics: Socially Constructed Vocabularies and Assumptions

By Robert E. Mitchell
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

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