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Volume 23  Number 3  •  Winter 2018/19
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Articles
The Road to Crony Capitalism: An Introduction
By Robert M. Whaples
The Road to Crony Capitalism
By Michael C. Munger, Mario Villarreal-Diaz
Capitalism, Cronyism, and Democracy
By Geoffrey M. Hodgson
The Fall and Rise of Laissez-Faire in the United States, 1789-1900
By Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
Dynamism as a Bump on the Road to Crony Capitalism?
By Michelle Albert Vachris
Crony Capitalism versus Pure Capitalism
By Walter E. Block
We Cannot Let Cronyism Overrun Our Economic Garden
By Nicholaus D. Sorrentino
Cronyism: Necessary for the Minimal, Protective State
By Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall
Reader Response: Munger and Villarreal-Diaz on Crony Capitalism
By David Gordon
Reader Response: The Road to Crony Capitalism: Locke, Jefferson and American History
By Jerome Huyler
Reader Response: Cronyism Viewed Through the Frame of Property Rights
By William Stafford, M.D.
Reader Response: Legislation that Could Combat Corruption and Cronyism
By Ray Metcalfe
Reader Response: Is Cronyism Inherent to Capitalism?
By Teyoman Gokcek
Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-First Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective
By Richard N. Langlois
Leland Bennett Yeager: 1924-2018
By Roger G. Koppl
Stephen Margolis’s Contributions to Economics and Political Economy
By Peter J. Boettke

Book Reviews
Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives? The Foundations of the Libertarian–Conservative Debate
By Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel
Reviewed by James M. Strickland
The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies Have Emerged
By Bas Van Bavel
Reviewed by Hilton L. Root
Restoring America’s Fiscal Constitution
By John D. Merryfield and Barry W. Poulson
Reviewed by Richard M. Salsman
Cooperation and Excellence: A Premodern Case for Capitalism
By George Bragues
Reviewed by John J. Thrasher IV
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress; 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Stateless Commerce: The Diamond Network and the Persistence of Relational Exchange
By Barak D. Richman
Reviewed by Lee K. Benham
What Is Classical Liberal History?
Edited by Michael J. Douma and Phillip W. Magness
Reviewed by Robert E. Wright
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
By Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro
Reviewed by Cecil E. Bohanon
The Progressive Era
By Murray N. Rothbard, edited by Patrick Newman
Reviewed by Rok Novak
Discrimination and Disparities
By Thomas Sowell
Reviewed by Ben O’Neill
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
By Rupert Darwall
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us: The Discipline at a Crossroads
By Steven Payson
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Etceteras
Two Worlds: Politics and Everything Else
By Robert Higgs



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