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The Business of Liberty and the Liberty of Business: Nozick’s Contribution

By Gregory J. Robson

My Dinner with Nozick

By David J. Schmidtz

Robert Nozick and the Moral High Ground

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By Jason Brennan

Putting Wilt Chamberlain Back in the Game: Why Liberalism Is Not Compatible with Distributive Egalitarianism

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By Jessica Flanigan, Christopher Freiman

Anarchy, State, and Utopia at Fifty: Reassessing Nozick on Pluralism

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By Aeon J. Skoble

Nozick on Taxation: The Necessity of Funding the Legitimate State

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By Richard M. Salsman

New Problems in Nozick’s Derivation of the Minimal State

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By David Gordon

Nozick on the Separateness of Persons: A Reconstruction

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By Eric Mack

Christianizing Nozick

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By Gregory J. Robson

The Recurrent Evil of Price Controls: John Witherspoon’s 1778 Letter to George Washington

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By Erik W. Matson

Capitalism versus Socialism: The Confusion of Knight, the Clarity of Mises

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By Peter J. Boettke

In Memoriam: Robert B. Ekelund Jr.

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By Robert F. Hébert

The Immigration Act of 1924: A Centenary Reflection

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By Richard K. Vedder, Matthew Denhart

Reflections

Looks Like a Conspiracy but Is Not a Conspiracy: Big Government, Not Big Pharma, Explains the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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By Moshe Yanovskiy, Yehoshua Socol

Etceteras

The DOJ’s Complaint against Apple Doubles Down on Earlier Antitrust Law Enforcement Mistakes

By William F. Shughart II, Richard B. McKenzie

Book Reviews

The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights

By Mark Paul

Reviewed by Meg Tuszynski

The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy

By Scott Sumner

Reviewed by Joshua R. Hendrickson

America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism

By Ronald J. Pestritto

Reviewed by R. Ship Melnick

Getting Monetary Policy Back on Track

Edited by Michael D. Bordo, John H. Cochrane, and John B. Taylor

Reviewed by Peter Ireland

The Federal Reserve: A New History

By Robert L. Hetzel

Reviewed by Daniel J. Smith

The Case for Shareholder Capitalism: How the Pursuit of Profit Benefits All

By R. David McLean

Reviewed by Carson Young

Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future

By Stuart L. Hart

Reviewed by Cecil E. Bohanon

The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization

By Stephen M. Bainbridge

Reviewed by Peter C. Earle

David Ricardo: An Intellectual Biography

By Sergio Cremaschi

Reviewed by David M. Levy

Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk

Reviewed by Diana W. Thomas

Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization

By Brad Wilcox

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism

By Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Reviewed by Mark Koyama

A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China

By Dale C. Copeland

Reviewed by Nathaniel W. Smith

Tax Turmoil: A Dia Fenner Economic Thriller

By Michael Walden and M.E. Whitman Walden

Reviewed by Michael C. Munger

Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume I; Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume II

Reviewed by Michael C. Munger

Ranking Nations: The Value of Indicators and Indices?

By Stephen Morse

Reviewed by Ryan H. Murphy

The Fragility of China: Breaking Points of an Invincible Regime

By Dennis Unkovic

Reviewed by Evan Osborne

Winning America’s Second Civil War: Progressivism’s Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came From, and How to Defeat It

By Jeffrey E. Paul

Reviewed by Robert E. Wright

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

By Nick Romeo

Reviewed by Mark Steckbeck

Climate and Energy: The Case for Realism

Edited by E. Calvin Beisner and David R. Legates

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Pox Romana: The Plague that Shook the Roman World

By Colin Elliott

Reviewed by Byron B. Carson III

We Win They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War

By Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea

Reviewed by John J. Davenport

The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy

By Samuel Ely Bagg

Reviewed by Michael C. Munger

Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

By Aditya Balasubramanian

Reviewed by Shreyas Narla

Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences

By Raghuram Rajan

Reviewed by W. William Woolsey

My Journeys in Economic Theory

By Edmund Phelps

Reviewed by Michelle Albert Vachris

Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness

By Timothy Sandefur

Reviewed by Darwyyn Deyo

Research Handbook on Nudges and Society

Edited by Cass Sunstein and Lucia Reisch

Reviewed by Douglas Glen Whitman

A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist

By Randy Barnett

Reviewed by William J. Watkins, Jr.

Geoengineering Discourse Confronting Climate Change: The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics

By Brynna Jacobson

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

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