Volume 25

Number 4

Spring

2021

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Articles

Virus and Leviathan: Symposium on Public Health and Policy in a Free Society

Christopher J. Coyne

Economics, COVID-19, and the Entangled Political Economy of Public Health

Richard E. Wagner

The Origins and Political Persistence of COVID-19 Lockdowns

Phillip W. Magness, Peter C. Earle

Flatten the Bureaucracy: Deregulation and COVID-19 Testing

Raymond J. March

Infectious Diseases and Government Growth

Nathan P. Goodman, Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail Devereaux

Automatons or Individuals?: Voluntary Responses to COVID-19-Related Epidemic Externalities

Byron B. Carson III

Free-Speech Rights versus Property and Privacy Rights: “Ag-Gag” Laws and the Limits of Property Rights

Ian J. Drake

Why Italy’s Season of Economic Liberalism Did Not Last

Alberto Mingardi

The Complex Relationship between Democracy and Freedom

Randall G. Holcombe

Book Reviews

When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice

By Jason Brennan
Reviewed by
Gary Chartier

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

By Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Reviewed by
Alexander W. Craig

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

By Joseph Henrich
Reviewed by
David Gordon, Ying Tang

How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century

By Frank Dikötter
Reviewed by
M. Scott King

Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World

By Charles Koch, with Brian Hooks
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism; The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

The Age of Selfies: Reasoning about Rights When the Stakes Are Personal

By Adam J. MacLeod
Reviewed by
Kevin D. Vallier

America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding

By Robert R. Reilly
Reviewed by
William J. Watkins, Jr.

Humans versus Nature: A Global Environmental History

By Daniel R. Headrick
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

By Bjorn Lomborg
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Was Jesus a Socialist?: Why This Question Is Being Asked Again, and Why the Answer Is Almost Always Wrong

By Lawrence W. Reed
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

The Reality of Money: The Metaphysics of Financial Value

By Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
Reviewed by
Leonidas Zelmanovitz

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