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Articles written by Michael C. Munger in The Independent Review:

Tax Turmoil
A Dia Fenner Economic Thriller
Book Review
Fall 2024
Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume I; Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume II
Book Review
Fall 2024
Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume I; Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism, Volume II
Book Review
Fall 2024
­The Dispersion of Power
A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy
Book Review
Fall 2024
Secret Government
The Pathologies of Publicity
Book Review
Summer 2024
Following Their Leaders
Political Preferences and Public Policy
Book Review
Spring 2024
The Origins and Evolution of Consumer Capitalism; Crack-Up Capitalism
Book Review
Spring 2024
The Origins and Evolution of Consumer Capitalism; Crack-Up Capitalism
Book Review
Spring 2024
The Classical Liberal Diaspora
Reflections
Winter 2023/24
Karl Mittermaier
Economic Theory vs. Reality
Article
Fall 2023
The Governance Cycle in Parliamentary Democracies
A Computational Social Science Approach
Book Review
Fall 2023
Climate Liberalism
Perspectives on Liberty, Property, and Pollution
Book Review
Fall 2023
Centers of Progress
40 Cities That Changed the World
Book Review
Fall 2023
Solving Social Dilemmas
Ethics, Politics, and Prosperity
Book Review
Summer 2023
Stealth Lobbying
Interest Group Influence and Health Care Reform
Book Review
Summer 2023
The Bright and Shiny Soul of Geoffrey Brennan (1944–2022)
Article
Spring 2023
Wild Problems
A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
Book Review
Spring 2023
The Soul of Classical Political Economy
James Buchanan from the Archives
Book Review
Spring 2023
Capitalism for Realists
Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy
Book Review
Spring 2023
Common Enemies
Georgetown Basketball, Miami Football, and the Racial Transformation of College Sports
Book Review
Winter 2022/23
Re-Launch
How Families Can Be Renewed and the American Dream Revived in the New Independent Lifestyle of the Post-Pandemic Economy
Book Review
Winter 2022/23
The Journey Beyond Fear
Leverage the Three Pillars of Positivity to Build Your Success
Book Review
Fall 2022
Survival of the City
Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
Book Review
Fall 2022
In Memoriam: Richard L. Stroup (1943–2021)
Article
Summer 2022
Markets With Limits
How the Commodification of Academia Derails Debate
Book Review
Summer 2022
The Prehistory of Private Property
Implications for Modern Political Theory
Book Review
Summer 2022
Getting Right with Reagan
The Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980–2016
Book Review
Spring 2022
Cogs and Monsters; The Economist’s Craft
Book Review
Spring 2022
Cogs and Monsters; The Economist’s Craft
Book Review
Spring 2022
Desert? You Can’t Handle Desert!
Article
Winter 2021/22
First Principles; Fears of a Setting Sun
Book Review
Winter 2021/22
First Principles; Fears of a Setting Sun
Book Review
Winter 2021/22
Populism, Self-Government, and Liberty
Article
Summer 2021
Reinventing Racism; American Awakening; That Is Not Who We Are!; The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
Book Review
Summer 2021
Reinventing Racism; American Awakening; That Is Not Who We Are!; The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
Book Review
Summer 2021
Reinventing Racism; American Awakening; That Is Not Who We Are!; The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
Book Review
Summer 2021
Reinventing Racism; American Awakening; That Is Not Who We Are!; The Dictatorship of Woke Capital
Book Review
Summer 2021
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, from George Washington to Donald Trump; Democracy against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall
Book Review
Summer 2021
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, from George Washington to Donald Trump; Democracy against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall
Book Review
Summer 2021
Believe in People
Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World
Book Review
Spring 2021
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism; The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
Book Review
Spring 2021
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism; The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
Book Review
Spring 2021
Political Capitalism
How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained
Book Review
Winter 2020/21
The Hand behind the Invisible Hand
Dogmatic and Pragmatic Views on Free Markets and the State of Economic Theory
Book Review
Winter 2020/21
Understanding the Blockchain Economy
An Introduction to Institutional Cryptoeconomics
Book Review
Fall 2020
The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law
Book Review
Fall 2020
Why Associations Matter
The Case for First Amendment Pluralism
Book Review
Fall 2020
Property Rights
The Argument for Privatization
Book Review
Summer 2020
Great Society
A New History
Book Review
Summer 2020
Was Karl Marx a Public-Choice Theorist?
Article
Spring 2020
Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism
Book Review
Spring 2020
Must Politics Be War?
Restoring Our Trust in the Open Society
Book Review
Spring 2020
Institutional and Organizational Analysis
Concepts and Applications
Book Review
Winter 2019/20
Judicial Fortitude
The Last Chance to Rein in the Administrative State
Book Review
Winter 2019/20
Free to Hate? Safe Spaces in American Politics
Review Essay
Fall 2019
The Value and Limits of Academic Speech
Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspective
Book Review
Fall 2019
Old Whigs
Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence
Book Review
Fall 2019
Kidnap
Inside the Ransom Business
Book Review
Summer 2019
Making the Voluntaryist Venn Work for Us, Not against Us
Article
Spring 2019
First Freedom
A Ride through America’s Enduring History with the Gun
Book Review
Spring 2019
Gods and Robots
Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
Book Review
Spring 2019
The Road to Crony Capitalism
Article
Winter 2018/19
What Is “Actually Existing Socialism”?
Article
Fall 2018
Social Class and State Power
Exploring an Alternative Radical Tradition
Book Review
Fall 2018
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk about It)
Book Review
Spring 2018
On the Origins and Goals of Public Choice
Constitutional Conspiracy?
Article
Winter 2017/18
The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones
Concentrating Economic Development
Book Review
Winter 2017/18
DC Confidential
Inside the Five Tricks of Washington
Book Review
Winter 2017/18
Self-Control or State Control?: You Decide; Arguments for Liberty
Book Review
Summer 2017
Self-Control or State Control?: You Decide; Arguments for Liberty
Book Review
Summer 2017
Escaping Jurassic Government
How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence
Book Review
Summer 2017
Egalitarianism, Properly Conceived
We ALL Are “Rawlsekians” Now!
Article
Summer 2017
The Politics of Bitcoin
Software as Right-Wing Extremism
Book Review
Spring 2017
The Sharing Economy
The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism
Book Review
Fall 2016
Douglass C. North
The Answer Is “Transactions Costs”
Reflections
Summer 2016
The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure
Why the Future of Business Depends on the Return to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Book Review
Winter 2015/16
Tomorrow 3.0
The Sharing Economy
Article
Winter 2015/16
The Age of Cryptocurrency
How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order
Book Review
Fall 2015
Why Not Capitalism?
Book Review
Fall 2015
Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick (Collected Papers of Anthony de Jasay)
Book Review
Summer 2015
Editor’s Introduction
The Basic-Income Debate
Article
Spring 2015
One and One-Half Cheers for a Basic-Income Guarantee
We Could Do Worse, and Already Have
Article
Spring 2015
Public Choice’s Homeric Hero
Gordon Tullock (1922–2014)
Article
Spring 2015
No Place to Hide
Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Book Review
Spring 2015
Why Government Fails so Often—and How It Can Do Better
Book Review
Winter 2014/15
The Soul of James Buchanan?
Article
Winter 2013/14
In Memoriam
Charles Kershaw Rowley
Reflections
Winter 2013/14
War, the American State, and Politics since 1898
Book Review
Fall 2012
Preferences and Situations
Points of Intersection Between Historical and Rational Choice Institutionalism
Book Review
Spring 2007
Veto Players
How Political Institutions Work
Book Review
Fall 2004
Special Interest Politics
Book Review
Spring 2003
Limiting Leviathan
Book Review
Winter 2000/01
Congress
A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting
Book Review
Spring 1999
Golden Rule
The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems
Book Review
Spring 1996


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