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Volume 21  Number 4  •  Spring 2017
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Articles
Hamilton on Broadway and the Founding in American Culture: An Introduction
By Matthew E. Brown
A Founding, If You Can Keep It
By Matthew E. Brown
Alexander Hamilton as Immigrant: Musical Mythology Meets Federalist Reality
By Phillip W. Magness
Can Great Art Also Be Great History?
By Kenneth Owen
Alexander Hamilton: The Wrong Hero for Our Age
By Billy G. Smith
Hamilton’s Legacy and the Great Man Theory of Financial History
By Edward P. Stringham
The Musical Hamilton from the Perspective of Financial History, in Verse
By Robert E. Wright
Unfinished Business: Reflections on Canada’s Economic Transformation and the Work Ahead
By Rahim Mohamed
Constitutional Drift and Political Dysfunction: Underappreciated Maladies of the Political Commons
By Alexander William Salter
Is This North Carolina or Zimbabwe? How Property Rights in North Carolina Deteriorated to the Level of a Third-World Country
By Craig J. Richardson

Reflections
The New Wall Street and the High Cost of Manipulating Money
By George F. Gilder

Book Reviews
Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship
By Virgil Henry Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch, and Laura Grube
Reviewed by Daniel J. Smith
Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking
Edited by Roger D. Congleton and Arye L. Hillman
Reviewed by Jac C. Heckelman
God? Very Probably: Five Rational Ways to Think about the Question of a God
By Robert H. Nelson; Foreword by Herman Daly
Reviewed by Charles Taliaferro
Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance
By Adair Turner
Reviewed by Philipp Bagus
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
By Branko Milanovic
Reviewed by William R. Keech
Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam Smith
By Cecil E. Bohanon, and Michelle Albert Vachris
Reviewed by Carlos Rodríguez Braun
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
By Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels
Reviewed by Tim Cox
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein
By John Nixon
Reviewed by Christopher J. Coyne
The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism
By David Golumbia
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
The Language of Economics: Socially Constructed Vocabularies and Assumptions
By Robert E. Mitchell
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples



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