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Volume 20  Number 2  •  Fall 2015
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Articles
Causes and Consequences of the Climate Science Boom
By William N. Butos, Thomas J. McQuade
Dodd–Frank: Accretion of Power, Illusion of Reform
By Charlotte Twight
Why Did China’s Population Grow so Quickly?
By David Howden, Yang Zhou
Academic Piracy: Rebranding Social Criticism as Critical Thinking
By Robert E. Martin
Countering the Modern Luddite Impulse
By Tom Lehman
Thomas Piketty’s Flawed Analyses of Public Debt and Executive Compensation
By Donald J. Boudreaux

Book Reviews
The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order
By Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
By Meghnad Desai
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Tapping Water Markets
By Terry L. Anderson, Brandon Scarborough, and Lawrence R. Watson
Reviewed by Randy Simmons
Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism
By Robert P. George
Reviewed by Jennifer Roback Morse
Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle. Volume 1: Integrating Theory and Practice. Volume 2: Remedies and Alternative Theories
By Brian P. Simpson
Reviewed by Nicolás Cachanosky
Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Lethal Threat to American Liberty
By Andrew P. Napolitano
Reviewed by Ivan Eland
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
By Russ Roberts
Reviewed by John T. Dalton
Why Not Capitalism?
By Jason Brennan
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
By Nicholas Wade
Reviewed by Walter E. Block
We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money
By Edward D. Kleinbard
Reviewed by Adam J. Hoffer

Etceteras
How Big Is Government in the United States?
By Robert Higgs



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