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Articles

Employers Can Revolutionize American Healthcare and Accelerate Economic Growth by Embracing Price Transparency

By Arthur B. Laffer, Larry Van Horn, Cynthia A. Fisher

Monetary Disorder in Buenos Aires Province, 1822–1881

By Adrián Osvaldo Ravier, Nicolás Cachanosky

American Correspondence Schools in Context

By Jane Shaw Stroup

The Ideological Commissar and the Institutionalization of Indoctrination: Insights from the Communist Experience

By Paul Dragos Aligica

Fascism: Left, Right, or Neither?

By Allen Gindler

The Ethics of Doing Business with Illegal Immigrants

By Benjamin Powell, Jason Brennan

Academic Entrepreneurship in Sometimes Hostile Environments: James Buchanan and the Virginia School of Political Economy

By Peter J. Boettke, J. R. Clark, John Kroencke

In Memoriam: Richard L. Stroup (1943–2021)

By Michael C. Munger, Terry L. Anderson

Tribute

The Wisdom of David J. Theroux (1949–2022)

By Robert M. Whaples

Etceteras

Where Do the Poorest Americans Stand in the Income Distribution among All People Ever Born?

By Robert M. Whaples

Book Reviews

Adam Smith

By Samuel Fleischacker

Reviewed by Maria Pia Paganelli

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

By William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullin

Reviewed by Robert W. McGee

The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

By Elbridge A. Colby

Reviewed by Christopher J. Coyne

Markets With Limits: How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate

By James Stacey Taylor

Reviewed by Michael C. Munger

The Prehistory of Private Property: Implications for Modern Political Theory

By Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall

Reviewed by Michael C. Munger

Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us

By Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro

Reviewed by Cecil E. Bohanon

Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny

By Donald T. Critchlow

Reviewed by Yuri N. Maltsev

Evicitionism: The Compromise Solution to the Pro-life Pro-choice Debate Controversy

By Walter E. Block

Reviewed by J. Daniel Hammond

Free Enterprise Environmentalism

By Walter E. Block

Reviewed by Peter J. Hill

The Resilient Society

By Markus K. Brunnermeier

Reviewed by Mario I. Juarez-Garcia

Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations of Students Drowning in Debt

By Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

Reviewed by Andrew Gillen

Fundamentals of Happiness: An Economic Perspective

By Lall Ramrattan and Michael Szenberg

Reviewed by Rachel Behr

The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life behind Bars Varies around the World

By David Skarbek

Reviewed by João Pedro Bastos

America’s Rise and Fall among Nations: Lessons in Statecraft from John Quincy Adams

By Angelo M. Codevilla

Reviewed by Ivan Eland

Libertarianism: John Hospers, The Libertarian Party’s 50th Anniversary, and Beyond

Edited by C. Ronald Kimberling and Stan Oliver

Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble

Geoengineering: The Gamble

By Gernot Wagner

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation

By Jeremy S. Adams

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Inflation: What It Is, Why It’s Bad, and How to Fix It

By Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

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