Volume 27

Number 2

Fall

2022

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Articles

Political Affiliations of Federal Reserve Economists

Emre Kuvvet

Measuring Student and Public Support for Controversial Speech on Campus

Dick M. Carpenter II, Joshua M. Dunn

The Abandonment of Growth and the Decline of the West

Robert D. Atkinson

A Constitutional Amendment to Constrain Rent-Granting and Rent-Extraction

James E. Hanley

Comrade Snowflake?: Why Millennials Won’t Be Socialists Forever

Anna B. Faria

COVID-19, Public Policy, and Public Choice Theory

Panagiotis Karadimas

Book Reviews

When Fracking Comes to Town: Governance, Planning, and Economic Impacts of the U.S. Shale Boom

By Sabina Deitrick and Ilia Murtazashvili
Reviewed by
Gary D. Libecap

Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America

By Mary Grabar
Reviewed by
Timothy M. Sandefur

Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition

By Edmund Fawcett
Reviewed by
Tristan J. Rogers

The Journey Beyond Fear: Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success

By John Hagel III
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

By Elizabeth Popp Berman
Reviewed by
Burton A. Abrams

Dissident Philosophers: Voices against the Political Current of the Academy

Edited by T. Allan Hillman and Tully Borland
Reviewed by
Jonathan Anomaly

Dumbing Down: The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System—and How to Reverse the Trend

By Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström
Reviewed by
Martha L. Bradley-Dorsey

The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

By Tristram Hunt
Reviewed by
Mark Brady

M. Stanton Evans: Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom

By Steven Hayward
Reviewed by
William Campbell

Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

By Alex Berenson
Reviewed by
Byron B. Carson III

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

By Jordan B. Peterson
Reviewed by
James F. Day

Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

By Elisabeth S. Clemens
Reviewed by
Lenore T. Ealy

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By Matthew Continetti
Reviewed by
Ivan Eland

New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State

By William J. Novak
Reviewed by
James W. Ely, Jr.

The Power of Capitalism: A Journey Through Recent History Across Five Continents

By Rainer Zitelmann
Reviewed by
David Gordon

The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians

By Naomi Schaefer Riley
Reviewed by
Jordan K. Lofthouse

Essays on Austrian Economics and Political Economy

By Karen I. Vaughn
Reviewed by
Adam G. Martin

The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding

By Ryan S. Walters
Reviewed by
John A. Moore

Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation

By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Universal Basic Income

By Brian McDonough and Jessie Bustillos Morales
Reviewed by
Antony Sammeroff

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

By Jacob Mchangama
Reviewed by
Luke C. Sheahan

Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy

By Tom Nichols
Reviewed by
Mark Steckbeck

The Selfish Brain: A Layperson’s Guide to a New Way of Economic Thinking

By Richard McKenzie
Reviewed by
George Tracey

Black Liberation through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America

By Rachel S. Ferguson and Marcus M. Witcher
Reviewed by
Richard K. Vedder

Live Long and Prosper?: The Economics of Ageing Populations

Edited by David E. Bloom
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It

By Sarah J. Morath
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Gaining Ground: Markets Helping Government

By Clifford Winston
Reviewed by
Bruce Yandle

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