Volume 23

Number 3

Winter

2018/19

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Articles

The Road to Crony Capitalism: An Introduction

Robert M. Whaples

The Road to Crony Capitalism

Michael C. Munger, Mario Villarreal-Diaz

Capitalism, Cronyism, and Democracy

Geoffrey M. Hodgson

The Fall and Rise of Laissez-Faire in the United States, 1789-1900

Burton W. Folsom, Jr.

Dynamism as a Bump on the Road to Crony Capitalism?

Michelle Albert Vachris

Crony Capitalism versus Pure Capitalism

Walter E. Block

We Cannot Let Cronyism Overrun Our Economic Garden

Nicholaus D. Sorrentino

Cronyism: Necessary for the Minimal, Protective State

Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall

Reader Response: Munger and Villarreal-Diaz on Crony Capitalism

David Gordon

Reader Response: The Road to Crony Capitalism: Locke, Jefferson and American History

Jerome Huyler

Reader Response: Cronyism Viewed Through the Frame of Property Rights

William Stafford, M.D.

Reader Response: Legislation that Could Combat Corruption and Cronyism

Ray Metcalfe

Reader Response: Is Cronyism Inherent to Capitalism?

Teyoman Gokcek

Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-First Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective

Richard N. Langlois

Leland Bennett Yeager: 1924-2018

Roger G. Koppl

Stephen Margolis’s Contributions to Economics and Political Economy

Peter J. Boettke

Book Reviews

Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives?: The Foundations of the Libertarian–Conservative Debate

By Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel
Reviewed by
James M. Strickland

The Invisible Hand?: How Market Economies Have Emerged

By Bas Van Bavel
Reviewed by
Hilton L. Root

Restoring America’s Fiscal Constitution

By John D. Merryfield and Barry W. Poulson
Reviewed by
Richard M. Salsman

Cooperation and Excellence: A Premodern Case for Capitalism

By George Bragues
Reviewed by
John J. Thrasher IV

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress; 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Stateless Commerce: The Diamond Network and the Persistence of Relational Exchange

By Barak D. Richman
Reviewed by
Lee K. Benham

What Is Classical Liberal History?

Edited by Michael J. Douma and Phillip W. Magness
Reviewed by
Robert E. Wright

Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

By Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro
Reviewed by
Cecil E. Bohanon

The Progressive Era

By Murray N. Rothbard, edited by Patrick Newman
Reviewed by
Rok Novak

Discrimination and Disparities

By Thomas Sowell
Reviewed by
Ben O’Neill

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

By Rupert Darwall
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us: The Discipline at a Crossroads

By Steven Payson
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Etceteras

Two Worlds: Politics and Everything Else

Robert Higgs

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