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Volume 25  Number 3  •  Winter 2020/21
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Articles
Introduction: The Political Economy of Great Works of Literature
By Robert M. Whaples
Is Nothing Sacred? Aristophanes’s The Clouds and Moral Taboos
By William P. Baumgarth, Sr.
Crusoe and the Economists: An Accounting
By Steven G. Horwitz, Sarah Skwire
Human Nature and Civil Society in Jane Austen
By Michelle Albert Vachris, Cecil E. Bohanon
A Lesson in Humility, a Lesson for Our Times: Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed
By Alberto Mingardi
Liberty Befits All: Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By Robert E. Wright
Economics Meets War and Peace: Tolstoy’s Implicit Social Theory
By H. Geoffrey Brennan, A.M.C. Waterman
The Political Economy of Joseph Conrad
By Robert M. Whaples
The Autopoietic World of Franz Kafka
By Antony W. Dnes
Philanthropic Exchange in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
By Cecil E. Bohanon, Michelle Albert Vachris
The Political Economy of Flannery O’Connor
By Anemone Beaulier, Scott A. Beaulier

Reflections
What Is Supply-Side Economics? Four Decades Later Wikipedia and Academic Economists Still Don’t Know
By Paul Craig Roberts

Book Reviews
The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done
By John M. Ellis
Reviewed by Warren Treadgold
Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America
By Noah Rothman
Reviewed by Anthony J. Gill
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
By Michael Shellenberger
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained
By Randall G. Holcombe
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
The Hand behind the Invisible Hand: Dogmatic and Pragmatic Views on Free Markets and the State of Economic Theory
By Karl Mittermaier
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Same Players, Different Game: An Examination of the Commercial College Athletics Industry
By John C. Barnes
Reviewed by William L. Anderson
Cryptodemocracy: How Blockchain Can Radically Expand Democratic Choice
By Darcy W.E. Allen, Chris Berg, and Aaron M. Lane
Reviewed by Abigail Devereaux
American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
Edited by Andrew J. Bacevich
Reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
By Mark Bray
Reviewed by J. K. Miles
Locke among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century
By Daniel Layman
Reviewed by Alberto Mingardi
Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom
By Michael Rectenwald
Reviewed by Benjamin Ogden
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By Isabel Wilkerson
Reviewed by Mark Steckbeck



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