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Volume 20  Number 3  •  Winter 2015/16
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Articles
The Economic Future: An Introduction
By Robert M. Whaples
From Lemonade Stands to 2065
By Pierre Lemieux
Pessimistically Optimistic about the Future
By Peter J. Boettke
The Economy in 2065: Predictions and Cautions
By David R. Henderson
If We Keep Our Ethical Wits, We Can See over into a Great Enrichment
By Art Carden, Deirdre N. McCloskey
The Coming of Peak Gross Domestic Product?
By Brink Lindsey
Why Software Really Will Eat the World—and Whether We Should Worry
By Russell D. Roberts
The U.S. Economy: The New Normal and an Unsustainable Future
By Benjamin Powell, Taylor Leland Smith
Life Is a Battlefield
By Janet A. Schwartz, Dan Ariely
The Uber-All Economy of the Future
By J. Walker Smith
Tomorrow 3.0: The Sharing Economy
By Michael C. Munger
Bitcoin and the Future of Digital Payments
By William J. Luther
The Connected Home and an Electricity-Market Platform for the Twenty-First Century
By L. Lynne Kiesling
If Government Were Angels, Only Humans Would Be Necessary: A Look at the Economic Prospects of 2065
By Brian F. Domitrovic
The Future of the Economy: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
By P. J. O’Rourke
Through the Mist: American Liberty and Political Economy, 2065
By Charlotte Twight
Alternatives to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
By Thomas L. Hogan, Kristine Johnson

Book Reviews
The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot
By Jonathan Witt and Jay W. Richard
Reviewed by Richard Scott Nokes
Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
By David Sloan Wilson
Reviewed by James A. Montanye
Asteroid Mining 101: Wealth for the New Space Economy
By John S. Lewis
Reviewed by Alexander William Salter
The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why the Future of Business Depends on the Return to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
By John A. Allison
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
The End of Socialism
By James R. Otteson
Reviewed by Loren E. Lomasky
How China Became Capitalist
By Ronald Coase and Ning Wang
Reviewed by Andreas Stamate-Ștefan
Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective
By Thomas Sowell
Reviewed by Gary M. Galles
The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
By Ndongo S. Sylla
Reviewed by Edward Tower

Etceteras
Ludwig von Mises and Dietrich von Hildebrand: Some Remarkable Parallels
By Robert Higgs



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