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Volume 24  Number 2  •  Fall 2019
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Articles
Premature Imitation and India’s Flailing State
By Alexander T. Tabarrok, Shruti Rajagopalan
The Berlin Abendpost: A Stirnerite and Individualist Anarchist Newspaper from 1850
By Elias Huber
Latin American Populism in the Twenty-First Century
By Alexandre Padilla, Nicolás Cachanosky
Institutions and Economic Development on Native American Lands
By Jordan K. Lofthouse
More Boon Than Bane: How the U.S. Reaped the Rewards and Avoided the Costs of the Shale Boom
By Ilia Murtazashvili, Ennio E. Piano
Harold Demsetz: Preferring Reality to Nirvana
By Stan J. Liebowitz, Stephen E. Margolis

Reflections
What Happens When the Economic Past Is Left to the Kindness of Its Enemies?
By Peter J. Boettke
Placing Constituent Wants ahead of Principle—Virtue or Vice?
By Rick Becker

Review Essay
Free to Hate? Safe Spaces in American Politics
By Michael C. Munger

Book Reviews
We Have Not a Government: The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
By George William Van Cleve
Reviewed by William J. Watkins, Jr.
The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
By John F. Cogan
Reviewed by Lee A. Craig
F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy, and Social Philosophy
By Peter J. Boettke
Reviewed by Steven G. Horwitz
The Economics of Poverty Traps
Edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, and Jean-Paul Chavas
Reviewed by Matthew E. Brown
Self-Regulation and Human Progress: How Society Gains When We Govern Less
By Evan Osborne
Reviewed by Nathan P. Goodman
For Your Own Good: Taxes, Paternalism, and Fiscal Discrimination in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Adam J. Hoffer and Todd Nesbit
Reviewed by Stephen M. Jones-Young
The Homelessness Industry: A Critique of U.S. Social Policy
By Elizabeth Beck and Pamela C. Twiss
Reviewed by David S. Lucas
Gambling with Other People’s Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis
By Russ Roberts
Reviewed by Paul Mueller
The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspective
Edited by Donald Alexander Downs and Chris W. Surprenant
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Old Whigs: Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence
By Greg Weiner
Reviewed by Michael C. Munger
Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
By Tyler Cowen
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way through the Unfree World
By Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Etceteras
Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism
By Robert Higgs



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