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Volume 19  Number 1  •  Summer 2014
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Articles
The Imprudence of Macroprudential Policy
By Alexander William Salter
Corporate Influence and Political Corruption: Lessons from Stock Market Reactions to Political Events
By Jeffrey Milyo
The Two Moralities of the Minimum Wage
By Dwight R. Lee
Sin Taxes and Sindustry: Revenue, Paternalism, and Political Interest
By Adam J. Hoffer, William F. Shughart II, Michael D. Thomas
Human Freedom: From Pericles to Measurement
By Fred McMahon, Alan Dowd
Jimmy Carter, Alfred Kahn, and Airline Deregulation: Anatomy of a Policy Success
By John Howard Brown
Ronald Coase: An Appreciation
By John V. C. Nye
Meet the Old Sweatshops: Same as the New
By Benjamin Powell

Book Reviews
U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure
By Peter Grossman
Reviewed by L. Lynne Kiesling
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present
By Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel
Reviewed by Richard L. Stroup
The Ways of a King: Legal and Political Ideas in the Bible
By Geoffrey P. Miller
Reviewed by Paul R. Abramson
Exploring Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film
By Edward W. Younkins
Reviewed by Allen Porter Mendenhall
The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future
By Paul Sabin
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Free Our Markets: A Citizens’ Guide to Essential Economics
By Howard Baetjer Jr.
Reviewed by Joseph Connors
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
By Michael Huemer
Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers: The Economic Engine of Political Change
By Wayne A. Leighton and Edward López
Reviewed by Lawrence W. Kenny

Etceteras
The Fed’s Immiseration of People Who Live on Interest Earnings
By Robert Higgs



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