Volume 29

Number 1

Summer

2024

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Articles

Old Kinderhook and Civic Integration in America

Garion Frankel

Playing the Defense: The Beef Trust, Cronyism, and the 1891 and 1906 Meat Inspection Acts

Patrick Newman

No Sweat?: Living Standards and Sweatshop Wages in Developing Countries

Towhid Mahmood, Benjamin Powell

Better Spent Elsewhere: Why Philosophy Should Be Funded Less

Jimmy Alfonso Licon

Abortion and Public Policy

Steven E. Landsburg

Abortion and Public Policy: A Defense of “Naive” Rawlsianism

Nicholas Colgrove

Tocqueville, Hayek, and American Intellectual Conservatism

Jason R. Jividen

James Gwartney: A Legacy of Economic Freedom, Education, and Mentorship

Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, Joseph P. Calhoun

Moderation in the Pursuit of Justice Is a Virtue: Nicholas Rescher’s Quest for a Good Society

David Gordon

Reflections

The Economic Function of Inflation Is to Lower the Real Value of Wealth Assets Sufficiently to Pay for the Government’s Excess Spending Monetized by the Federal Reserve

Vernon L. Smith

Research Diversity, Disruptive Science, and Scientific Consensus

Robert Gmeiner

Restoring Free Trade and Investment in a Global Trading System

William A. Owens, Barry W. Poulson

The Dark Sides of Transparency

Jimmy Alfonso Licon

Book Reviews

The Call of the Tribe

By Mario Vargas Llosa
Reviewed by
Edward J. López

We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care

By Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein
Reviewed by
James Bailey

Living Together: Inventing Moral Science

By David Schmidtz
Reviewed by
Christopher Tollefsen

Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics

By Eric MacGilvray
Reviewed by
John J. Thrasher IV

The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made

By Cliff Sloan
Reviewed by
James W. Ely, Jr.

Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience

By Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell
Reviewed by
Nick Reaves, Benjamin Sanford

Show and Biz: The Market Economy in TV Series and Popular Culture (2000–2020)

Edited by Maria Blanco and Alberto Mingardi
Reviewed by
Michelle Albert Vachris

Not in My Backyard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs

By Brian Balogh
Reviewed by
Christopher J. Calton

Libertarian Autobiographies: Moving Toward Freedom in Today’s World

Edited by Jo Ann Cavallo and Walter E. Block
Reviewed by
Paul F. Cwik

The Uses of Delusion: Why It’s Not Always Rational to Be Rational

By Stuart Vyse
Reviewed by
Brian Kogelmann

A Research Agenda for Austrian Economics

Edited by Steven Horwitz and Louis Rouanet
Reviewed by
Adam G. Martin

Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity

By Brian Kogelmann
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money

By George Gilder
Reviewed by
Richard M. Salsman

Liberty Lost: The Rise and Demise of the Voluntary Association in America Since Its Founding

By Robert E. Wright
Reviewed by
Luke C. Sheahan

The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

By Oded Galor
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It

By Richard V. Reeves
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

By Catherine Ruth Pakaluk
Reviewed by
Anna Claire Flowers

Classic Book Reviews

These United States: Our Nation’s Geography, History and People

Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

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