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Volume 22  Number 4  •  Spring 2018
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The Rise of the Regulatory State: Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Markets for Blood
By Michael D. Thomas, Diana W. Thomas
Bounties, Grants, and Market-Making Entrepreneurship
By David S. Lucas, Caleb S. Fuller
The Blockchain and Increasing Cooperative Efficacy
By Malavika Nair, Daniel S. Sutter
Buchanan’s Accounts of the Serendipitous Discovery of Wicksell: A Case of “Just What Was He Thinking?” or . . .
By Michael Brooks
Is Support for Capitalism Declining around the World? A Free-Market Mentality Index, 1990–2012
By Carlos Newland
Who Is the Forgotten Man (and Woman) on the Fiscal Commons?
By Jody W. Lipford, Bruce Yandle
Some Fundamental Problems with Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By Juan Ramón Rallo
If I Forget Thee, O Kirkcaldy! Reflections on What We Have Forgotten
By Jared Lobdell

Book Reviews
The Curse of Cash: How Large-Denomination Bills Aid Crime and Tax Evasion and Constrain Monetary Policy
By Kenneth S. Rogoff
Reviewed by William J. Luther
One Day We Will Live without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State
By Mark Harrison
Reviewed by Paul R. Gregory
The Bureaucrat Kings: The Origins and Underpinnings of America’s Bureaucratic State
By Paul Moreno
Reviewed by Bruce Yandle
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk about It)
By Elizabeth Anderson
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes
By Vanessa A. Williamson
Reviewed by Brian J. Gaines
The Political Economy of Public Debt: Three Centuries of Theory and Evidence
By Richard M. Salsman
Reviewed by Alexander William Salter
Inside Job: How Government Insiders Subvert the Public Interest
By Mark A. Zupan
Reviewed by Michael D. Thomas
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do about It
By Richard V. Reeves
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
By Thomas Winslow Hazlett
Reviewed by Gary M. Galles
The Soul of the First Amendment
By Floyd Abrams
Reviewed by Luke C. Sheahan
Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World
By Dani Rodrik
Reviewed by Douglas Nelson
Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction
By Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer
Reviewed by Richard Weikart
Freedom in Sweden: Selected Works of Erik Gustaf Geijer
Edited by Björn Hasselgren
Reviewed by Claes-Henric Siven

Etceteras
Ideology and Political Divisiveness
By Robert Higgs



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