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Volume 27  Number 4  •  Spring 2023
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Articles
Crisis and Credit Allocation: The Effect of Ideology on Monetary Policy during the Great Depression and the Great Recession
By James L. Caton
The View of Knowledge: An Institutional Theory of Differences in Educational Quality
By Magnus Henrekson, Johan Wennström
Unintended Consequences: A Critical Review of Child Support Enforcement
By Clifford F. Thies, John Winn
The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange
By Art Carden, Rosolino A. Candela
Power to the People? Lobbying for Labor Rights in Brazil’s National Constituent Assembly
By Gabriel F. Benzecry
Instilling Duties above Instilling Rights: Two Features of Adam Smith’s Talk of Justice and Liberty
By Daniel B. Klein
The Bright and Shiny Soul of Geoffrey Brennan (1944–2022)
By Michael C. Munger

Reflections
How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite
By Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall

Book Reviews
Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity
By Claudia Goldin
Reviewed by Price V. Fishback
Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
By Russ Roberts
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
By Christopher Leonard
Reviewed by Lawrence H. White
Defending Liberty: Essays in Honor of David Gordon
Edited by Douglas B. Rasmussen and Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Reviewed by Walter E. Block
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By Nicholas Mulder
Reviewed by Christopher J. Coyne
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners around the World
By Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
Reviewed by Mitchell Earl
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
By Peter Zeihan
Reviewed by Robert Gmeiner
Generation Gap: Why Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture
By Kevin Munger
Reviewed by Randall G. Holcombe
The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines
By David Autor, David A. Mindell, and Elisabeth B. Reynolds
Reviewed by Andre Mouton
The Soul of Classical Political Economy: James Buchanan from the Archives
Edited by Peter Boettke and Alain Marciano
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy
By Tibor Rutar
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World
By Scott Reynolds Nelson
Reviewed by Patrick Newman
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development
By Yuhua Wang
Reviewed by Hilton L. Root
Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
By Glory M. Liu
Reviewed by Marcus Shera
FDR’s Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism
By Laura Kalman
Reviewed by William F. Shughart II
The Myth of American Inequality
By Phil Gramm, Robert Ekelund and John Early
Reviewed by Clifford F. Thies
Electrify: An Optimist’s Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future
By Saul Griffith
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change
By Robert S. Pindyck
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Fragile Futures: The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change
By Vito Tanzi
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Commodities as an Asset Class: Essays on Inflation, the Paradox of Gold and the Impact of Crypto
By Alan G. Futerman and Ivo A. Sarjanovic
Reviewed by Leonidas Zelmanovitz



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