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Volume 24  Number 4  •  Spring 2020
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Articles
Reconsidering the Classics of Political Economy
By Robert M. Whaples
Today’s Relevance of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
By Donald J. Boudreaux
Malthus Was Not a Malthusian
By J. Daniel Hammond
Was Karl Marx a Public-Choice Theorist?
By Michael C. Munger
Reconsidering Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
By Solomon Stein, Virgil Henry Storr
Reconsidering Frank Knight’s Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit
By Ross B. Emmett
The Keynes Perplex
By William N. Butos
Mises’s Human Action and Its Place in Science and Intellectual Culture
By Peter J. Boettke
A Vision for a Dynamic World: Reading Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy for Today
By John T. Dalton, Andrew J. Logan
Why Didn’t Galbraith Convince Us That America Is an Affluent Society?
By Robert M. Whaples
The Naked Emperor: Politics without Romance in The Calculus of Consent
By William F. Shughart II, Arthur R. Wardle
The Economy of Cities: Jane Jacobs’s Overlooked Economic Classic
By Sanford Ikeda
The Mirage of Democratic Excesses: Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty
By Leonidas Zelmanovitz
Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons: Institutional Diversity, Self-Governance, and Tragedy Diverted
By Roberta Q. Herzberg

Book Reviews
The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy: We’re All Dead
By Victor V. Claar and Greg Forster
Reviewed by Peter J. Hill
Economics in the Time of COVID-19
Edited by Richard Baldwin and Beatrice Weder di Mauro
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
By Raghuram Rajan
Reviewed by Lenore T. Ealy
Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?
By Virgil H. Storr and Ginny S. Choi
Reviewed by Gary M. Galles
The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation
By Isabel Sawhill
Reviewed by Tom Lehman
The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
By Binyamin Appelbaum
Reviewed by Gary McDonnell
Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism
By Naomi Beck
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Must Politics Be War? Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society
By Kevin Vallier
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Escape from Democracy: The Role of Experts and the Public in Economic Policy
By David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart
Reviewed by Cameron M. Weber
Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History That Turned a Generation against America
By Mary Grabar
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Coming Home: Reclaiming America’s Conservative Soul
By Ted V. McAllister and Bruce P. Frohnen
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
By Robert J. Shiller
Reviewed by Bruce Yandle



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