Volume 28

Number 3

Winter

2023/24

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Articles

The Fable of Shareholder Environmental Activism by Government Pensions

Raymond Venner

Interpreting Atomic Bomb History: A Reply to Fuller’s “An Economic Case against the Atomic Bombing of Japan”

Barton J. Bernstein

Interpreting Atomic Bomb History: A Response to Bernstein

Edward W. Fuller

The East Asian Challenge for Market Liberalism: Toward a Hayekian Context-Specific Response

Bryan Cheang

Singapore’s Small Development State

Ryan H. Murphy

War and European Welfare Exceptionalism

Chris Pope

Student Essay Contest Winners

Smith and Cicero on Philosophy in Action

Phoebe Johnston

Pumping Gas and Siphoning Rents: The Political Economy of Self-Service Laws

Samuel D. Peterson

Landlords, Banking, Merchants, and European Financial Systems: An Intellectual History of Richard Cantillon’s Innovative Entrepreneurial Theory

Meredith Kottom

Reflections

The Classical Liberal Diaspora

Michael C. Munger

The Rival Definitions of Economic Recession: Resolved

John F. Gaski

Tyranny Reverse Engineered, Non-violent Resistance, and the American Heritage

Lukas Abelmann

Review Essay

Vivek Ramaswamy on What’s Troubling America

D. Eric Schansberg

Book Reviews

Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

By Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger
Reviewed by
Erwin Dekker

The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

By Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi
Reviewed by
Alfredo Watkins

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity

By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Reviewed by
Marcus Shera

How Monetary Policy Got behind the Curve—and How to Get Back

By Michael D. Bordo, John H. Cochrane, and John B. Taylor
Reviewed by
Thomas L. Hogan

A Crash Course on Crises: Macroeconomic Concepts for Run-ups, Collapses, and Recoveries

By Markus K. Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis
Reviewed by
Robert F. Mulligan

Institutions and Economic Development: Markets, Ideas, and Bottom-up Change

By Bryan Cheang and Tom G. Palmer
Reviewed by
Nathaniel W. Smith

Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer

Edited by Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr
Reviewed by
Michael D. Thomas

The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation

By Trevor Hedberg
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Modernizing Aristotle’s Ethics: Toward a New Art and Science of Self-Actualization

By Roger E. Bissell and Vinay Kolhatkar
Reviewed by
Winton Bates

Reality Is Tricky: Contrarian Takes on Contested Economic Issues

By Richard B. McKenzie
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

The Malfunction of U.S. Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness

By Richard Phelps
Reviewed by
John D. Merrifield

The Road to Socialism and Back: An Economic History of Poland, 1939–2019

By Peter Boettke, Konstantin Zhukov, and Matthew Mitchell
Reviewed by
Marta Podemska-Mikluch

New Deal Rebels

Edited by Amity Shlaes
Reviewed by
Tanner Corley

Social Justice Fallacies

By Thomas Sowell
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

How to Interpret the Constitution

By Cass R. Sunstein
Reviewed by
William J. Watkins, Jr.

Destructive Coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: A New Reading of Contemporary Iran

By Mehrdad Vahabi
Reviewed by
László Csaba

Rethinking Economics as Social Theory

By Richard E. Wagner
Reviewed by
Randall G. Holcombe

Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy

Edited by Karl Wennberg and Christian Sandström
Reviewed by
Byron B. Carson III

Yemen In the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War

By Stacey Philbrick Yadav
Reviewed by
Yahya Alshamy

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