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Volume 29

Number 3

Winter

2024/25

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Articles

Applied Humanomics: Introduction to the Symposium

Diana W. Thomas

Governance in the Aftermath of Violent Internal Conflict

Colin O’Reilly

Homo Agens and Homo Moralis in Humanomics

Douglas B. Rasmussen

A More Humane Altruism: Effective Altruism Meets Humanomics

Michael D. Thomas

On Organizational Independence

Daniel J. D’Amico

Economic Calculation and the Role of Prices in Privatization

Tegan Truitt, Scott A. Burns

Deregulatory Capture: Why Deregulation May Increase the Regulatory Burden

Max Molden

Microtargeting Voters in the 2016 U.S. Election: Was Cambridge Analytica Really Different?

Demi Fink, Keith Jakee

Reflections

A Short Defense of Immoderate Wealth

Jan Narveson

Student Essay Contest Winners

Profits for a Purpose: A Thomistic Analysis of the Friedman Doctrine

Jonah T. Tran

The State of Federalism and Police Powers in a Post-COVID-19 Society

Katie Kirk

Student Essay Contest Runners Up

The Political Economy of Rights

Daniel Mayorga Montesdeoca

Self-Interest and the French Revolution: The Redefinition of Ambition and Virtue

Lauren Smyth

Marine Shell Beads as Primitive Money in Mississippian Culture

Evan Osborne

Book Reviews

What Universities Owe Democracy

By Ronald J. Daniels (with Grant Shreve and Phillip Spector)
Reviewed by
Joseph M. Knippenberg
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The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good

By Alexander William Salter
Reviewed by
Gregory J. Robson
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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Reviewed by
Vernon L. Smith
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Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

By Kohei Saito
Reviewed by
Robert D. Atkinson
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The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—but There Is a Solution

By Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott
Reviewed by
Peter W. Wood
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Handbook of Teaching Ethics to Economists: A Plurality of Perspectives

Edited by Ioana Negru, Craig Duckworth, and Imko Meyenburg
Reviewed by
Glenn Butner, Jr.
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Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

By Bryan Caplan (writer) and Ady Branzei (illustrator)
Reviewed by
Christopher J. Calton
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The China Dilemma: Rethinking US–China Relations through Public Choice

By Ryan M. Yonk and Ethan Yang
Reviewed by
Gregory W. Caskey
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Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue: Freedom Is Something We Do Together

Edited by Fabio Rojas and Charlotta Stern
Reviewed by
Alexander W. Craig
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The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of Service

Edited by William A. Taylor
Reviewed by
Ivan Eland
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The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy

Edited by Ryan A. Bourne
Reviewed by
Anna B. Faria
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You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism

By Bryan Caplan
Reviewed by
David Gordon
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No Free Lunch: Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught and Probably Believe

By Caleb S. Fuller
Reviewed by
Ninos P. Malek
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An Economic Theory of Home Schooling

By Brian Baugus
Reviewed by
Stephen Miller
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A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory from Jane Jacobs

By Sanford Ikeda
Reviewed by
Joanna Szurmak
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

By Guido Alfani
Reviewed by
Ian Malcolm Taplin
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Toward a Hayekian Theory of Social Change

Edited by Peter J. Boettke, Erwin Dekker, and Chad Van Schoelandt
Reviewed by
Cameron Tilley
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Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People

By Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples
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Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

By R. Jisung Park
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples
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Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West

By Daniel Waldenström
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples
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How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity

By Rainer Zitelmann
Reviewed by
Konstantin Zhukov

Classic Book Review

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How NATO Weakens the West

By Melvyn Krauss
Reviewed by
Ivan Eland

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