Volume 28

Number 4

Spring

2024

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Articles

A Vision of a Productive Free Society: Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty

Robert M. Whaples

For a New Liberty after Fifty Years

David Gordon

Libertarianism, Oversimplified

Matt Zwolinski

Seeing the State through For a New Liberty

Jason Lee Byas

Privatize the Public Sector: Murray Rothbard’s Stateless Libertarian Society

Randall G. Holcombe

Conservation, Ecology, and Growth in For a New Liberty

Peter C. Earle, Ryan M. Yonk

Murray Rothbard on War and Foreign Policy

Christopher J. Coyne, Yuliya Yatsyshina

The Political Economy of Rising Defense Costs

Independent Institute

What Is in the Federal Reserve’s Doomsday Book?

Emre Kuvvet

Yoram Barzel: Property Rights, Political Economy, and the Reorganization of Economic Analysis

Rosolino A. Candela

Concepts before Measurement: A Rejoinder to Ryan Murphy on the Developmental State

Bryan Cheang

Time on the Cross at Fifty

Richard K. Vedder

Book Reviews

Out of the Melting Pot, into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World’s Past and America’s Future

By Jens Heycke
Reviewed by
Garett Jones

Following Their Leaders: Political Preferences and Public Policy

By Randall G. Holcombe
Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Theory Tradition, 1927–1960

By George S. Tavlas
Reviewed by
Douglas A. Irwin

Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?

By Lawrence H. White
Reviewed by
Kevin Dowd

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem; Homelessness in America

Reviewed by
Christopher J. Calton

The Human Prosperity Project: Essays on Socialism and Free Market Capitalism from the Hoover Institution

By Foreword by Condoleezza Rice, project co-chairs Scott W. Atlas and Edward P. Lazear
Reviewed by
Diana W. Thomas

Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics

By H. Spencer Banzhaf
Reviewed by
Peter J. Hill

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

By Jennifer Burns
Reviewed by
J. Daniel Hammond

GOAT: Who Is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?

By Tyler Cowen
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Equality of Opportunity: A Century of Debate

By David Davenport and Gordon Lloyd
Reviewed by
John A. Moore

The Early Years of Economics in the United States: The Influence of the German Historical School of Economics on Teaching and Theory

By Birsen Filip
Reviewed by
David Gordon

The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War over Education in America

By Cara Fitzpatrick
Reviewed by
John D. Merrifield

A Paleoconservative Anthology: New Voices for an Old Tradition

Edited by Paul Gottfried
Reviewed by
Shawn Ritenour

The Power of Hope: How the Science of Well-Being Can Save Us from Despair

By Carol Graham
Reviewed by
Diana W. Thomas

Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

By Philip K. Howard
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History

By Lorenzo Infantino
Reviewed by
Karras J. Lambert

The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left

By Garrett Jones
Reviewed by
Zachary Gochenour

Challenges in Classical Liberalism: Debating the Policies of Today versus Tomorrow

Edited by Alice L. Kassens and Joshua C. Hall
Reviewed by
Craig J. Richardson

The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

By Melissa S. Kearney
Reviewed by
Robert M. Whaples

How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

By John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato
Reviewed by
Zachary Yost

The Origins and Evolution of Consumer Capitalism; Crack-Up Capitalism

Reviewed by
Michael C. Munger

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