Volume 30

Number 3

Winter

2025/26

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Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Charlotte Twight’s America’s Emerging Fascist Economy

Introduction: Symposium on Charlotte Twight’s America’s Emerging Fascist Economy

Christopher J. Coyne

The Road to Fascism

Randall G. Holcombe

Twight’s Thesis at Fifty: America’s Continuing Battle Against Fascism

Robert M. Whaples

Charlotte Twight and the Spirit of Fascism

Alberto Mingardi

How Government Intervention Makes Prices and Wages Sticky

Patrick Newman

Populism, the Illusion of Participation, and the Hope of Self-Governance

Christopher J. Coyne, Andre Quintas

Memorial

Alasdair MacIntyre: Standing Athwart History, Shouting “Practice!

Michael C. Munger

Reflections

The Economic Dimension of the Hebrew Bible

Allen Gindler

Taking Liberties with Liberty: Isaiah Berlin on “Liberty”

Max Hocutt

Student Essay Contest Winners

Hayek Against Ujamaa: Knowledge, Identity, and Economic Planning in Postcolonial Tanzania

Brayden Myers

A Cooperative Hospital: A Thought Experiment Inspired by History

Tz-Shiang Shia

The Federal Technocracy: How the Administrative State Eroded Popular Consent

Patrick McDonald

Student Essay Contest Runner Up

Praxeology and Time: Bridging Apriorism and Institutional Temporalities

Daniel Mayorga Montesdeoca

Review Essay

Monetary Policy as If Inflation Hardly Matters

Lawrence H. White

Book Reviews

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How to Review Scholarly Books: Reading, Writing, Relishing

By Steven E. Gump
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People

By Paul Seabright
Reviewed by
J. Robert Subrick

Markets with Chinese Characteristics: Economic Liberalism in Modern China

By Evan W. Osborne
Reviewed by
Yongjing Zhang

Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism

By Shadi Bartsch
Reviewed by
Andre Archie

FDR’s Long New Deal: A Public Choice Perspective

By Robert E. Wright
Reviewed by
Art Carden

Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

By Sheilagh Ogilvie
Reviewed by
Raymond J. March

Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea

By Darrin M. McMahon
Reviewed by
Adam Gjesdal

Ethics, Politics, and Natural Law: Principles for Human Flourishing

By Melissa Moschella
Reviewed by
Christopher Tollefsen

Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers

By Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli
Reviewed by
Thomas L. Hogan

Economics as Science: A Critical History of Economic Thought 

By Bernard C. Beaudreau
Reviewed by
Gabriel F. Benzecry

The Price of the Common Good: Markets, Corporations, and Political Economy

By Mark Hoipkemier
Reviewed by
Brian Boyd

Title IX and the Protection of Pregnant and Parenting College Students: Realities and Challenges

By Catherine L. Riley, Alexis Hutchinson, and Carley Dix
Reviewed by
Jessica Carges

The Political Economy of War, Peace, and the Military-Industrial Complex: New Perspectives

By Raffaele Giammetti and Thomas Palley
Reviewed by
Christopher J. Coyne

Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

By Gerald Epstein
Reviewed by
Peter C. Earle

Gems of American History: The Lecturer’s Art

By Walter A. McDougall
Reviewed by
Hans Eicholz

The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail

By Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen
Reviewed by
Williamson M. Evers

Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy

By Randi Weingarten
Reviewed by
Williamson M. Evers

Plato: A Civic Life & Plato and the Tyrant

Reviewed by
Morgan Hunter

The Social Philosophers: Community and Conflict in Western Thought

By Robert Nisbet (new foreword by Luke Sheahan)
Reviewed by
Jason Jewell

From Marx to Markets: An Intellectual Odyssey 

By Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Reviewed by
Mario I. Juarez-Garcia

The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism

By Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux
Reviewed by
Paul Mueller

The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer

By Daniel J. Flynn
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Moral Institutions: An Introduction to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics

By Mario I. Juarez-Garcia
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism 

By Sean McMeekin
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Your Body, Your Health Care

By Jeffrey A. Singer
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Liberty and Security in an Anarchical World, Vols. I & II

Reviewed by
Edwin van de Haar

Progressive Myths

By Michael Huemer
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

An Introduction to Natural Disaster Economics

By Matthew E. Kahn
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades

By David Eltis
Reviewed by
Robert E. Wright

Classic Book Review

Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s

By Douglas A. Irwin
Reviewed by
Jason E. Taylor

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