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Volume 25  Number 4  •  Spring 2021
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Articles
Virus and Leviathan: Symposium on Public Health and Policy in a Free Society
By Christopher J. Coyne
Economics, COVID-19, and the Entangled Political Economy of Public Health
By Richard E. Wagner
The Origins and Political Persistence of COVID-19 Lockdowns
By Phillip W. Magness, Peter C. Earle
Flatten the Bureaucracy: Deregulation and COVID-19 Testing
By Raymond J. March
Infectious Diseases and Government Growth
By Nathan P. Goodman, Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail Devereaux
Automatons or Individuals? Voluntary Responses to COVID-19-Related Epidemic Externalities
By Byron B. Carson III
Free-Speech Rights versus Property and Privacy Rights: “Ag-Gag” Laws and the Limits of Property Rights
By Ian J. Drake
Why Italy’s Season of Economic Liberalism Did Not Last
By Alberto Mingardi
The Complex Relationship between Democracy and Freedom
By Randall G. Holcombe

Book Reviews
When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice
By Jason Brennan
Reviewed by Gary Chartier
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
By Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Reviewed by Alexander W. Craig
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
By Joseph Henrich
Reviewed by David Gordon, Ying Tang
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
By Frank Dikötter
Reviewed by M. Scott King
Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
By Charles Koch, with Brian Hooks
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism; The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
The Age of Selfies: Reasoning about Rights When the Stakes Are Personal
By Adam J. MacLeod
Reviewed by Kevin D. Vallier
America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding
By Robert R. Reilly
Reviewed by William J. Watkins, Jr.
Humans versus Nature: A Global Environmental History
By Daniel R. Headrick
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
By Bjorn Lomborg
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Was Jesus a Socialist? Why This Question Is Being Asked Again, and Why the Answer Is Almost Always Wrong
By Lawrence W. Reed
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
The Reality of Money: The Metaphysics of Financial Value
By Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
Reviewed by Leonidas Zelmanovitz



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