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Volume 22  Number 2  •  Fall 2017
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Articles
The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution
By Robert M. Whaples
The Black Swan of the Russian Revolution
By Paul R. Gregory
Chaos and Utopia: The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution and Civil War
By Peter Mentzel
Mass Murder and Public Slavery: The Soviet Experience
By Yuri N. Maltsev
A Legacy of Lies and Lost Souls: The Russian Revolution at One Hundred Years
By Peter J. Boettke
The Soviet Economy, 1917–1991: Its Life and Afterlife
By Mark Harrison
Lessons from Revolutions: Development Takes Time
By Jerry F. Hough
Weaponization of Sports: The Battle for World Influence through Sporting Success
By Dennis C. Coates
How Paper Money Led to the Mongol Conquest: Money and the Collapse of Song China
By Peter St. Onge
The Diseconomies of Do-It-Yourself
By Ryan H. Murphy
Campus Sexual Assault: What We Know and What We Don’t
By William R. Beaver
Passing the Affordable Care Act: Transaction Costs, Legerdemain, Acquisition of Control
By Charlotte Twight

Reflections
Realism about Political Philosophy
By Nicholas Rescher

Book Reviews
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
By Robert H. Frank
Reviewed by Steven G. Horwitz
The Quest for Good Governance: How Societies Develop Control of Corruption
By Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Reviewed by Jamie Bologna Pavlik
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays
Edited by Edward Younkins
Reviewed by Cecil E. Bohanon
The Permission Society: How the Ruling Class Turns Our Freedoms into Privileges and What We Can Do about It
By Timothy Sandefur
Reviewed by Adam Thierer
For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good
By Samuel Gregg
Reviewed by Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr.
American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It; Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission
Reviewed by Christopher J. Coyne
Elinor Ostrom: An Intellectual Biography
By Vlad Tarko
Reviewed by Jayme Lemke
Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present
By Nicholas Capaldi and Gordon Lloyd
Reviewed by Greg Randolph
Panarchy: Political Theories of Non-Territorial States
Edited by Aviezer Tucker and Gian Piero de Bellis
Reviewed by Vlad Tarko
A Pope and A President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the Twentieth Century
By Paul Kengor
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Etceteras
Freedom of Movement—the Sine Qua Non of Economic Prosperity and Progress
By Robert Higgs



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