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Articles

Applied Humanomics: Introduction to the Symposium

By Diana W. Thomas

Governance in the Aftermath of Violent Internal Conflict

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By Colin O’Reilly

Homo Agens and Homo Moralis in Humanomics

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By Douglas B. Rasmussen

A More Humane Altruism: Effective Altruism Meets Humanomics

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By Michael D. Thomas

On Organizational Independence

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By Daniel J. D’Amico

Economic Calculation and the Role of Prices in Privatization

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By Tegan Truitt, Scott Andrew Burns

Deregulatory Capture: Why Deregulation May Increase the Regulatory Burden

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By Max Molden

Microtargeting Voters in the 2016 U.S. Election: Was Cambridge Analytica Really Different?

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By Keith Jakee, Demi Fink

Reflections

A Short Defense of Immoderate Wealth

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By Jan Narveson

Student Essay Contest Winners

Profits for a Purpose: A Thomistic Analysis of the Friedman Doctrine

By Jonah T. Tran

The State of Federalism and Police Powers in a Post-COVID-19 Society

By Katie Kirk

Student Essay Contest Runners Up

The Political Economy of Rights

By Daniel Mayorga Montesdeoca

Self-Interest and the French Revolution: The Redefinition of Ambition and Virtue

By Lauren Smyth

Marine Shell Beads as Primitive Money in Mississippian Culture

By Evan Osborne

Book Reviews

What Universities Owe Democracy

By Ronald J. Daniels (with Grant Shreve and Phillip Spector)

Reviewed by Joseph M. Knippenberg

The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good

By Alexander William Salter

Reviewed by Gregory J. Robson

The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

By Joseph E. Stiglitz

Reviewed by Vernon L. Smith

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

By Kohei Saito

Reviewed by Robert D. Atkinson

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—but There Is a Solution

By Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

Reviewed by Peter W. Wood

Handbook of Teaching Ethics to Economists: A Plurality of Perspectives

Edited by Ioana Negru, Craig Duckworth, and Imko Meyenburg

Reviewed by Glenn Butner, Jr.

Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

By Bryan Caplan (writer) and Ady Branzei (illustrator)

Reviewed by Christopher J. Calton

The China Dilemma: Rethinking US–China Relations through Public Choice

By Ryan M. Yonk and Ethan Yang

Reviewed by Gregory W. Caskey

Sociology and Classical Liberalism in Dialogue: Freedom Is Something We Do Together

Edited by Fabio Rojas and Charlotta Stern

Reviewed by Alexander W. Craig

The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of Service

Edited by William A. Taylor

Reviewed by Ivan Eland

The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy

Edited by Ryan A. Bourne

Reviewed by Anna B. Faria

You Will Not Stampede Me: Essays on Non-Conformism

By Bryan Caplan

Reviewed by David Gordon

No Free Lunch: Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught and Probably Believe

By Caleb S. Fuller

Reviewed by Ninos P. Malek

An Economic Theory of Home Schooling

By Brian Baugus

Reviewed by Stephen Miller

A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory from Jane Jacobs

By Sanford Ikeda

Reviewed by Joanna Szurmak

As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West

By Guido Alfani

Reviewed by Ian Malcolm Taplin

Toward a Hayekian Theory of Social Change

Edited by Peter J. Boettke, Erwin Dekker, and Chad Van Schoelandt

Reviewed by Cameron Tilley

Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People

By Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

By R. Jisung Park

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West

By Daniel Waldenström

Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

How Nations Escape Poverty: Vietnam, Poland, and the Origins of Prosperity

By Rainer Zitelmann

Reviewed by Konstantin Zhukov

Classic Book Review

How NATO Weakens the West

By Melvyn Krauss

Reviewed by Ivan Eland

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