Volume 26

Number 4

Spring

2022

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Articles

Capitalism, Slavery, and Matthew Desmond’s Low-Road Contribution to the 1619 Project

Peter A. Coclanis

The Political Economy of Modern Wildlife Management: How Commercialization Could Reduce Game Overabundance

Robert E. Wright

“The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: W. H. Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism

Phillip W. Magness, Art Carden, Ilia Murtazashvili

Keynes, Russian Economic Thought, and Contemporary Policy

Marianne Johnson, Alexander Kovzik

Contra-capitalism: The Exit Ramp from Market-Oriented Business

Roger S. Donway

A Limited Defense of Factory Farming: The Ethics and Politics of Consuming Intensively Raised Animals

Jonathan Ashbach

Book Reviews

Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge

By John G. Matsusaka
Reviewed by
Greg Randolph

Tax Tyranny

By Pascal Salin
Reviewed by
Enrico Colombatto

Getting Right with Reagan: The Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980–2016

By Marcus M. Witcher
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography

By Michele Alacevich
Reviewed by
Peter J. Boettke

No Brainers and Low-Hanging Fruit in National Climate Policy

Edited by Francesco Caselli, Alexander Ludwig, and Rick van der Ploeg
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates

By Ian Miller
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Cynical Theories; The Parasitic Mind

Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Cogs and Monsters; The Economist’s Craft

Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

The Magic Money Tree and Other Economic Tales

By Lorenzo Forni
Reviewed by
Scott A. Burns

Business Ethics for Better Behavior

By Jason Brennan, William English, John Hasnas, and Peter Jaworski
Reviewed by
F. Eugene Heath

The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect

Edited by Peter C. Earle and William J. Luther
Reviewed by
Patrick Horan

Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs

By George Gilder
Reviewed by
Christian Hubbs

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

By Erik J. Larson
Reviewed by
Joseph Stearn

The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

By Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, and Simon Bunel
Reviewed by
Antonios M. Koumpias

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783–1850

By Alan Taylor
Reviewed by
John D. Majewski

Land, the State, and War: Property Institutions and Political Order in Afghanistan

By Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Ilia Murtazashvili
Reviewed by
Mikayla Novak

The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State

By Joseph Heath
Reviewed by
Alexander Schaefer

Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

By Kyle Harper
Reviewed by
Marcus Shera

Money and the Rule of Law: Generality and Predictability in Monetary Institutions

By Peter J. Boettke, Alexander William Salter, and Daniel J. Smith
Reviewed by
Bonnie Wilson

Cronyism: Liberty vs. Power in America, 1607–1849

By Patrick Newman
Reviewed by
Robert E. Wright

Where Have All the Capitalists Gone?: Essays in Moral Political Economy

By Richard M. Salsman
Reviewed by
Edward W. Younkins

Classic Book Reviews

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

By Samuel P. Huntington
Reviewed by
Yahya Alshamy

The Ethics of Liberty

By Murray N. Rothbard
Reviewed by
Walter E. Block

The Ethics of Liberty

By Murray N. Rothbard
Reviewed by
David Gordon

How to Run a War

By Bruce Winton Knight
Reviewed by
Christopher J. Coyne

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