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Articles

The Fable of Shareholder Environmental Activism by Government Pensions

By Raymond Venner

Interpreting Atomic Bomb History: A Reply to Fuller’s “An Economic Case against the Atomic Bombing of Japan”

By Barton J. Bernstein

Interpreting Atomic Bomb History: A Response to Bernstein

By Edward W. Fuller

The East Asian Challenge for Market Liberalism: Toward a Hayekian Context-Specific Response

By Bryan Cheang

Singapore’s Small Development State

By Ryan H. Murphy

War and European Welfare Exceptionalism

By Chris Pope

Student Essay Contest Winners

Smith and Cicero on Philosophy in Action

By Phoebe Johnston

Pumping Gas and Siphoning Rents: The Political Economy of Self-Service Laws

By Samuel D. Peterson

Landlords, Banking, Merchants, and European Financial Systems: An Intellectual History of Richard Cantillon’s Innovative Entrepreneurial Theory

By Meredith Kottom

Reflections

The Classical Liberal Diaspora

By Michael C. Munger

The Rival Definitions of Economic Recession: Resolved

By John F. Gaski

Tyranny Reverse Engineered, Non-violent Resistance, and the American Heritage

By Lukas Abelmann

Review Essay

Vivek Ramaswamy on What’s Troubling America

By D. Eric Schansberg

Book Reviews

Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

By Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger

Reviewed by Erwin Dekker

The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism

By Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi

Reviewed by Alfredo Watkins

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity

By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson

Reviewed by Marcus Shera

How Monetary Policy Got behind the Curve—and How to Get Back

By Michael D. Bordo, John H. Cochrane, and John B. Taylor

Reviewed by Thomas L. Hogan

A Crash Course on Crises: Macroeconomic Concepts for Run-ups, Collapses, and Recoveries

By Markus K. Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis

Reviewed by Robert F. Mulligan

Institutions and Economic Development: Markets, Ideas, and Bottom-up Change

By Bryan Cheang and Tom G. Palmer

Reviewed by Nathaniel W. Smith

Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer

Edited by Stefanie Haeffele and Virgil Henry Storr

Reviewed by Michael D. Thomas

The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation

By Trevor Hedberg

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Modernizing Aristotle’s Ethics: Toward a New Art and Science of Self-Actualization

By Roger E. Bissell and Vinay Kolhatkar

Reviewed by Winton Bates

Reality Is Tricky: Contrarian Takes on Contested Economic Issues

By Richard B. McKenzie

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

The Malfunction of U.S. Education Policy: Elite Misinformation, Disinformation, and Selfishness

By Richard Phelps

Reviewed by John D. Merrifield

The Road to Socialism and Back: An Economic History of Poland, 1939–2019

By Peter Boettke, Konstantin Zhukov, and Matthew Mitchell

Reviewed by Marta Podemska-Mikluch

New Deal Rebels

Edited by Amity Shlaes

Reviewed by Tanner Corley

Social Justice Fallacies

By Thomas Sowell

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

How to Interpret the Constitution

By Cass R. Sunstein

Reviewed by William J. Watkins, Jr.

Destructive Coordination, Anfal and Islamic Political Capitalism: A New Reading of Contemporary Iran

By Mehrdad Vahabi

Reviewed by László Csaba

Rethinking Economics as Social Theory

By Richard E. Wagner

Reviewed by Randall G. Holcombe

Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy

Edited by Karl Wennberg and Christian Sandström

Reviewed by Byron B. Carson III

Yemen In the Shadow of Transition: Pursuing Justice Amid War

By Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Reviewed by Yahya Alshamy

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