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Table of Contents March 2019
Are a Few Huge Outcomes Distorting Financial Misconduct Research? by
A Response to “Are a Few Huge Outcomes Distorting Financial Misconduct Research?” by , , and
Is the United States an Outlier in Public Mass Shootings? A Comment on Adam Lankford by and
Confirmation That the United States Has Six Times Its Global Share of Public Mass Shooters, Courtesy of Lott and Moody’s Data by
Do Right to Carry Laws Increase Violent Crime? A Comment on Donohue, Aneja, and Weber by and
RTC Laws Increase Violent Crime: Moody and Marvell Have Missed the Target by , , and
Unforced Errors: Tennis Serve Data Tells Us Little About Loss Aversion by
Tennis Serve Data May Elude Some as Serves Get Too Fast by , , and
Why Did Milton Friedman Win the Nobel Prize? A Consideration of His Early Work on Stabilization Policy by and
Edmund Burke as an Economist by
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity by
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Table of Contents September 2018
And the IMF Said, Let There Be Data, and There Was Data: Private Capital Stocks in the Eastern Bloc by and
Hayek’s Divorce and Move to Chicago by
Icelandic Liberalism and Its Critics: A Rejoinder to Stefan Olafsson by
Adam Smith and His Russian Admirers of the Eighteenth Century by
Eugene F. Fama [Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates] by
Lars Peter Hansen [Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates] by
Information for the Hair Dressers in Edinburgh; Against the Incorporation of Barbers—The Second Edition by
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Table of Contents May 2018
Are Graphic Warning Labels Stopping Millions of Smokers? A Comment on Huang, Chaloupka, and Fong by , , , and
Reconsidering Colonial Maryland’s Bills of Credit 1767–1775 by
Colonial Maryland’s Post-1764 Paper Money: A Reply to Ron Michener by
Economic Liberalism in Peru by
Dissing The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Twenty-Six Critics, from 1765 to 1949 by
The Educational Benefits of Obscurity: Pedagogical Esotericism by
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Table of Contents January 2018
Editor’s Notes: Acknowledgments 2016–17
Professional Ethics 101: A Reply to Anne Krueger’s Review of The Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics by and
The Progressive Legacy Rolls On: A Critique of Steinbaum and Weisberger on Illiberal Reformers by
Will the Real Specification Please Stand Up? A Comment on Andrew Bird and Stephen Karolyi by
Response to Alex Young by and
The Impact of Right-to-Carry Laws: A Critique of the 2014 Version of Aneja, Donohue, and Zhang by and
More Gun Carrying, More Violent Crime by
Liberalism in Ukraine by and
Liberalism in Ecuador by , , and
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Table of Contents September 2017
Shy of the Character Limit: “Twitter Mood Predicts the Stock Market” Revisited by and
Who Knows What Willingness to Pay Lurks in the Hearts of Men? A Rejoinder to Egan, Corrigan, and Dwyer by
Anti-Liberal Narratives About Iceland, 1991–2017 by
From Political Advocacy to ‘Alternative Facts’: A Comment on Hannes Gissurarson’s Method by
Lectures on Domestic Policy by
Glimpses of David Hume edited by
An Economic Dream by
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Table of Contents May 2017
The Chang-Kim-Park Model of Cointegrated Density-Valued Time Series Cannot Accommodate a Stochastic Trend by
The War on Cash: A Review of Kenneth Rogoff’s The Curse of Cash by
Response to Jeffrey Rogers Hummel’s Review of The Curse of Cash by
Responding to Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf’s Attempted Defense of Their Piracy Paper by
Economics Doctoral Programs Still Elide Entrepreneurship by and
Classical Liberalism in China: Some History and Prospects by , , and
Liberalism in Iceland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by
My Most Regretted Statements: A Symposium Prologue by
My Most Regretted Statements: Canada as a Welfare State by
Fewer Than Sinatra: Three Quasi-Regrets by
My Biggest Regret by
My Most Regretted Statements by
My Methodological Flip-Flop on Individual Liberty by
An Economist’s Most Regrettable Statement by
The Statements I Most Regret by
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Table of Contents January 2017
In Memoriam: Thomas Schelling
Examination of Dr Smith’s System by
Classical Liberalism in Italian Economic Thought, from the Time of Unification by
Faculty Voter Registration: Rectifying the Omission of Two Florida Universities by , , and
Econ 101 Morality: The Amiable, the Mundane, and the Market by and
“Stop This Greed”: The Tax-Avoidance Political Campaign in the OECD and Australia by and
Propagandistic Research and the U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency in Ordinary Life and Renewables in Electricity Production by
Slip and Drift in Labor Statistics Since 2007 by
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Table of Contents September 2016
Why the Oberholzer-Gee/Strumpf Article on File Sharing Is Not Credible by
Incentivizing Exports in Academic Planning: The Rise of South Korea and Lessons for Underdeveloped Nations by
Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology by , , and
Undoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem by
The Social Theories of Classical Political Economy and Modern Economic Policy by
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How to Do Well While Doing Good! by
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Table of Contents May 2016
CIA Interventions, Tariff Changes, and Trade During the Cold War: A Variation and New Results by
Langbert on Left-Leaning Industrial Relations: Bringing Balance to a Right-Leaning Account by
Fruit Salad All the Way Down: Response to Kaufman on Industrial Relations by
My Understanding of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator: A Symposium Prologue by
The Impartial Spectator and Moral Judgment by
Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator by and
Impartial Spectating and the Price Analogy by
Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator: Symposium Remarks by
Natural and Artificial Impartiality by
Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator: Autonomy and Extended Selves by
On the Origins and Normative Status of the Impartial Spectator by
Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator by
Is Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator Selfless? by
Peer Review and the Development of the Impartial Spectator by
The Fair and Impartial Spectator by
The Logic of Reflection: Spectators Partial and Impartial by
My Understanding of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator by
The Meaning of Competition by
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Table of Contents January 2016
Editor’s Notes: Acknowledgments 2014–15 by
A Unit Root in Postwar U.S. Real GDP Still Cannot Be Rejected, and Yes, It Matters by
The Left Orientation of Industrial Relations by
Eli Heckscher’s Ideological Migration Toward Market Liberalism by
Liberalism in Korea by and
Liberalism in Mexican Economic Thought, Past and Present by
Glimpses of Adam Smith: Excerpts from the Biography by Ian Simpson Ross by
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Table of Contents September 2015
Education Premiums in Cambodia: Dummy Variables Revisited and Recent Data by
Why Weren’t Left Economists More Opposed and More Vocal on the Export-Import Bank? by , , and
Ideology Über Alles? Economics Bloggers on Uber, Lyft, and Other Transportation Network Companies by
Venezuela: Without Liberals, There Is No Liberalism by and
Classical Liberalism and Modern Political Economy in Denmark by
Liberalism in India by , , , and
Classical Liberalism in Guatemala by and
Of Its Own Accord: Adam Smith on the Export-Import Bank by
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Table of Contents May 2015
The Welfare State and Moral Sentiments: A Smith-Hayek Critique of the Evolutionary Left by
Hayek Deserves a New Paradigm, Not Old Ideological Categories: Response to Searles by , , and
Same-Sex Marriage and Negative Externalities: A Critique, Replication, and Correction of Langbein and Yost by and
Still No Evidence of Negative Outcomes from Same-Sex Marriage by and
Replications in Economics: A Progress Report by , , and
Classical Liberalism in Australian Economics by
Liberal Economics in Spain by
Liberal Economics in Poland by
The Endangered Classical Liberal Tradition in Lebanon: A General Description and Survey Results by
Classical Liberal Economics in the Ex-Yugoslav Nations by and
Classical Liberalism in the Czech Republic by and
A Beginner’s Guide to Esoteric Reading by
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Table of Contents January 2015
In Memoriam: Gordon Tullock
Economists on the Welfare State and the Regulatory State: Why Don’t Any Argue in Favor of One and Against the Other? A Symposium Prologue by
Do Welfare State Liberals Also Love Regulation? by
Yes, There Are Hayekian Welfare States (At Least in Theory) by
The Strange Career of Regulation in the Welfare State by
Two Ideological Ships Passing in the Night by
Differences of Opinion Among Economists About Government and Market Efficacy by
The Moral Narratives of Economists by and
Ideological Differences in Economics: Why Is the Left-Right Divide Widening? by
Unhelpful Abstractions and the Standard View by
Unconventional Confidence Bands in the Literature on the Government Spending Multiplier by
It’s Not a Minsky Moment, It’s a Minsky Era, Or: Inevitable Instability by
Skepticism About Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis: A Comment on Flanders by
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Table of Contents September 2014
Replicability and Pitfalls in the Interpretation of Resampled Data: A Correction and a Randomization Test for Anwar and Fang by
Saying Too Little, Too Late: Public Finance Textbooks and the Excess Burdens of Taxation by , , and
Ragnar Frisch and the Postwar Norwegian Economy: A Critical Comment on Sæther and Eriksen by
A Reply to Olav Bjerkholt on the Postwar Norwegian Economy by and
Does Occupational Licensing Deserve Our Approval? A Review of Work by Morris Kleiner by
Capitalism and the Rule of Love by
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Table of Contents May 2014
Does Economics Need an Infusion of Religious or Quasi-Religious Formulations? A Symposium Prologue by
Where Do Economists of Faith Hang Out? Their Journals and Associations, plus Luminaries Among Them by
From an Individual to a Person: What Economics Can Learn from Theology About Human Beings by
Joyful Economics by
Where There Is No Vision, Economists Will Perish by
Economics Is Not All of Life by
Philosophy, Not Theology, Is the Key for Economics: A Catholic Perspective by
Moving from the Empirically Testable to the Merely Plausible: How Religion and Moral Philosophy Can Broaden Economics by
Notes of an Atheist on Economics and Religion by
Entrepreneurship and Islam: An Overview by and
On the Relationship Between Finite and Infinite Goods, Or: How to Avoid Flattening by
The Starry Heavens Above and the Moral Law Within: On the Flatness of Economics by
On the Usefulness of a Flat Economics to the World of Faith by
What Has Jerusalem to Do with Chicago (or Cambridge)? Why Economics Needs an Infusion of Religious Formulations by
Maximization Is Fine—But Based on What Assumptions? by
Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management by and
Sympathy for Homo Religiosus by
Can ‘Religion’ Enrich ‘Economics’? by
Sin, and the Economics of ‘Sin’ by
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Table of Contents January 2014
Editor’s Notes: Acknowledgments 2012–13
One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer: A Comment on Zacharias Maniadis, Fabio Tufano, and John List by
One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer: Reply to Kataria by , , and
Should the Modernization Hypothesis Survive Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared? Some More Evidence by , , and
Ill-Conceived, Even If Competently Administered: Software Patents, Litigation, and Innovation—A Comment on Graham and Vishnubhakat by and
Ragnar Frisch and the Postwar Norwegian Economy by and
The Increasingly Libertarian Milton Friedman: An Ideological Profile by
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Table of Contents September 2013
In Memoriam: Ronald Coase
The Ideological Migration of the Economics Laureates: Introduction and Overview by
On the Ideological Migration of the Economics Laureates by
Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates
Economics Laureates’ Responses to Questionnaire on Ideological Migration by
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Table of Contents May 2013
In Memoriam: Armen Alchian
Regression Costs Fall, Mining Ratios Rise, Publication Bias Looms, and Techniques Get Fancier: Reflections on Some Trends in Empirical Macroeconomics by
Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? A Symposium Prologue by
Where Is the Next Rose Director? by
Why Are There No Milton Friedmans Today? by
Why Is There No New Milton Friedman Today? by
Why There Is No Milton Friedman Today by
Mistah Friedman? He Dead. by
The Uniqueness of Milton Friedman by
Why Milton Friedman Was Rare by
Why There Is No New Milton Friedman by
On Why There Is No Milton Friedman Today: Sui Generis, Sui Temporis by
Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? by
Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? by
Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? by
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Table of Contents January 2013
In Memoriam: James M. Buchanan
The Max U Approach: Prudence Only, or Not Even Prudence? A Smithian Perspective by
Model Distraction: A Comment on Daveri and Tabellini by
Did John Lott Provide Bad Data to the NRC? A Note on Aneja, Donohue, and Zhang by , , and
Substance vs. Sideshows in the More Guns, Less Crime Debate: A Comment on Moody, Lott, and Marvell by , , and
Did Jose Canseco Really Improve the Performance of His Teammates by Spreading Steroids? A Critique of Gould and Kaplan by
The Peer Effect of Jose Canseco: A Reply to J. C. Bradbury by and
Reply to Deirdre McCloskey and Stephen Ziliak on Statistical Significance by
We Agree That Statistical Significance Proves Essentially Nothing: A Rejoinder to Thomas Mayer by and
Paul Krugman Denies Having Concurred With an Administration Forecast: A Note by
Economics Professors’ Voting, Policy Views, Favorite Economists, and Frequent Lack of Consensus by , , and
Euro Politics: An Interview with Roland Vaubel by
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Table of Contents September 2012
Big Questions and Poor Economics: Banerjee and Duflo on Schooling in Developing Countries by
Why the Denial? Low-Cost Private Schools in Developing Countries and Their Contributions to Education by
Was Occupational Licensing Good for Minorities? A Critique of Marc Law and Mindy Marks by , , and
Occupational Licensing and Minorities: A Reply to Klein, Powell, and Vorotnikov by and
Ziliak and McCloskey’s Criticisms of Significance Tests: An Assessment by
Statistical Significance in the New Tom and the Old Tom: A Reply to Thomas Mayer by and
Mankiw vs. DeLong and Krugman on the CEA’s Real GDP Forecasts in Early 2009: What Might a Time Series Econometrician Have Said? by
Rating Government Bonds: Can We Raise Our Grade? by
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Table of Contents May 2012
Freedom Versus Coercion in Industrial Ecology: A Reply to Boons by
Freedom Versus Coercion in Industrial Ecology: Mind the Gap! by
Fact Versus Conjecture in the History of Industrial Waste Utilization by
Race, Ethnicity, and Baseball Card Prices: A Replication, Correction, and Extension of Hewitt, Muñoz, Oliver, and Regoli by and
Supplement to “Race, Ethnicity, and Baseball Card Prices: A Replication, Correction, and Extension of Hewitt, Muñoz, Oliver, and Regoli” by and
Beyond Race Cards in America’s Pastime: An Appreciative Reply to Findlay and Santos by
Characteristics of the Members of Twelve Economic Associations: Voting, Policy Views, and Favorite Economists by , , , and
The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom by
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Table of Contents January 2012
Editor’s Notes: Acknowledgments 2010-11 by
The Unemployment Impact of the 2008 Extension of Unemployment Insurance: As High as Robert Barro Suggested? by
Introduction to Symposium on U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics by
Some Possible Consequences of a U.S. Government Default by
The Bond Market Wins by
How a Default Might Play Out by
Courting an Avoidable Financial Crisis by
How and Why a U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis Could Occur by
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Table of Contents September 2011
Property: A Bundle of Rights? Prologue to the Property Symposium by and
Bundle-of-Sticks Notions in Legal and Economic Scholarship by
Two Cheers for the Bundle-of-Sticks Metaphor, Three Cheers for Merrill and Smith by
Bundle-of-Rights Theory as a Bulwark Against Statist Conceptions of Private Property by
The Regulative Function of Property Rights by
The Property Prism by
The False Promise of the Right to Exclude by
A Bundle Theorist Holds On to His Collection of Sticks by
Potentiality, Actuality, and “Stick”-Theory by
Property Is Not Just a Bundle of Rights by
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Table of Contents May 2011
Adam Smith and Liberal Economics: Reading the Minimum Wage Debate of 1795-96 by
Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views) by , , , and
Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA? by and
Economic Enlightenment Revisited: New Results Again Find Little Relationship Between Education and Economic Enlightenment but Vitiate Prior Evidence of the Left Being Worse by and
Remarks from 1809 by Dupont de Nemours on Adam Smith by
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An Award for Calling the Crash by
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Table of Contents January 2011
Unfortunately Unfamiliar with Robert Higgs and Others: A Rejoinder to Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s by
Constraints on Housing Supply: Natural and Regulatory by
Dropping the Geographic-Constraints Variable Makes Only a Minor Difference: Reply to Cox by and
Troubling Research on Troubled Assets: Charles Zheng on the U.S. Toxic Asset Auction Plan by
Growth Accelerations Revisited by
Advanced Placement Economics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by , , and
The Ideological Profile of Harvard University Press: Categorizing 494 Books Published 2000-2010 by and
The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson: Excerpts from W. R. Scott by
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Table of Contents September 2010
A Reply to Steven Horwitz’s Commentary on “Great Expectations and the End of the Depression” by
A Life among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA by
Economics, Economists, and Economic Policy: Modern American Experiences by
Czech Economists on Economic Policy: A Survey by
Economist Petitions: Ideology Revealed by , , and
Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Organ Liberalization? by
The Unenlightening “Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology and Other Variables” by
Economic Enlightenment Poll Creates More Heat Than Light by
Identification Problems in Economic Enlightenment Surveys: A Comment on Buturovic and Klein by
A Rigged Test: A Critical Look at Buturovic and Klein’s Conception of “Economic Enlightenment” by
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Table of Contents May 2010
Econometric Errors in an Applied Economics Article by
The Euro: It Happened, It’s Not Reversible, So… Make It Work by and
When the White House Changes Party, Do Economists Change Their Tune on Budget Deficits? by
Convictions Opposed to Certain Popular Opinions: The 1903 Anti-Protectionism Letter Supported by 16 British Economists
44 Economists Answer Questionnaire on the Pre-Market Approval of Drugs and Devices by , , and
44 Transcripts: Economists Who Answered the Questionnaire on the Pre-Market Approval of Drugs and Devices by , , and
Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans by and
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Table of Contents January 2010
Editor’s Notes: Acknowledgements 2008-09 by
It Can’t Happen, It’s a Bad Idea, It Won’t Last: U.S. Economists on the EMU and the Euro, 1989–2002 by and
I Was a Euro Enthusiast by
A Political Scientist’s Perspective by
Understanding the Euro Requires Political Economy, Not Just Economics by
Reflections on Currency Reform and the Euro by
It Has Happened—And It Will Continue to Succeed by
There Was No Analytical Alternative to the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas by
Mundell Changed His Mind by
The Secret of the Euro’s Success by
The Euro and the German Veto by
Outliers and the Halloween Effect: Comment on Maberly and Pierce by
305 Economists Called to Answer Questionnaire on the Pre-Market Approval of Drugs and Devices by and
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Table of Contents September 2009
Great Apprehensions, Prolonged Depression: Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s by
The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey by
Confession of an Economist: Writing to Impress Rather than Inform by
Preference Falsification in Teaching by
Confessions of a College Non-Economizer by
Economic Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Math Gamer, the Anti-Policy Econometrician and the Narrative Political Economist by
A Reply to Daniel Klein on Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand by
The Scottish Tradition in Economic Thought by
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Table of Contents May 2009
Occupational Licensing: Scant Treatment in Labor Texts by and
Do Economists Believe American Democracy Is Working? by and
The Debate on Shall Issue Laws, Continued by and
More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977–2006 by and
Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth by
In Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands: Comment on Gavin Kennedy by
Intellectual Hazard: A Liberal Selection of Quotations by
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Table of Contents January 2009
Editorial Notes January 2009
Goldin and Katz and Education Policy Failings in Historical Perspective by and
Some Anomalies Arising from Bandwagons that Impart Upward Sloping Segments to Market Demand by , , , and
Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis—With Some Help From Moody and Marvell by and
Does Economics Have a Gender? by and
Rent Control: Do Economists Agree? by
Desperately Seeking Smithians: Responses to the Questionnaire about Building an Identity by
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Table of Contents September 2008
The Debate on Shall-Issue Laws by and
Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Subsidies for Sports Franchises, Stadiums, and Mega-Events? by and
Colleagues, Where Is the Market Failure? Economists on the FDA by
The Curtailment of Critical Commentary in Australian Economics by , , and
The Present State of Economic Science by
Toward a Public and Professional Identity for Our Economics by
Uncovering the Costs of the Iraq War by
Correspondence September 2008 by
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Table of Contents May 2008
The Soviet Economic Decline Revisited by
Reply to Brendan Beare by and
The Diluted Economics of Casinos and Crime: A Rejoinder to Grinols and Mustard’s Reply by
Connecting Casinos and Crime: More Corrections of Walker by and
Smoking in Restaurants: Rejoinder to Alamar and Glantz by
Externalities in the Workplace: A Response to a Rejoinder to a Response to a Response to a Paper by and
Reaching the Top? On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession by and
On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession by
Mr. Max and the Substantial Errors of Manly Economics by
Diversity in Tastes, Values, and Preferences: Comment on Jonung and Ståhlberg by
Preferences Underlying Women’s Choices in Academic Economics by
What Is the Right Number of Women? Hints and Puzzles from Cognitive Ability Research by
Honestly, Who Else Would Fund Such Research? Reflections of a Non-Smoking Scholar by
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Table of Contents January 2008
Foreword: Editor’s Report January 2008
Do Casinos Really Cause Crime? by
Correctly Critiquing Casino-Crime Causality by and
Highway Penetration of Central Cities: Not a Major Cause of Suburbanization by , , and
Reply to Cox, Gordon, and Redfearn’s Comment on “Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?” by
Growth Accelerations and Regime Changes: A Correction by and
The EITC Disincentive: A Reply to Dr. Hilary Hoynes by
Gulphs in Mankind’s Career of Prosperity: A Critique of Adam Smith on Interest Rate Restrictions by
The Market for Lemmas: Evidence That Complex Models Rarely Operate in Our World by and
“Theory” and “Models”: Terminology Through the Looking Glass by and
Left Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006 by and
Taking Stock of Paul Krugman’s 654 New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006 by and
Sounds of Silence
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Table of Contents September 2007
Smoking in Restaurants: Who Best to Set the House Rules? by
Smoking in Restaurants: A Reply to David Henderson by and
Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Capital, Risk, Malfeasance, and Mismanagement by
Quantifying Moral Hazard: A Reply to Gary Richardson by and
The EITC Disincentive: The Effects on Hours Worked from the Phase-out of the Earned Income Tax Credit by
The EITC Disincentive: A Reply to Paul Trampe by
Got Replicability? The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Archive by
Thriving at Amazon: How Schumpeter Lives in Books Today by
Economists Against Smoot-Hawley
Correspondence September 2007 by and
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Table of Contents May 2007
Symposium Introduction: Trailblazers Too Lightly Mentioned? by
The Economic Analysis of Constitutions: Fatalism Versus Vitalism by and
The Empirical Institutions-Growth Literature: Is Something Amiss at the Top? by
Peter Bauer: Blazing the Trail of Development by
The Role of Economists in Liberalizing Swedish Agriculture by
Where Would Adam Smith Publish Today? The Near Absence of Math-free Research in Top Journals by and
Model Building versus Theorizing: The Paucity of Theory in the Journal of Economic Theory by and
The Internet and the Structure of Discourse: The Websites of Economists at Harvard and George Mason by and
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Table of Contents January 2007
In Memoriam: Milton Friedman
Empire: Public Goods and Bads by and
Death and Taxes, Including Inflation: the Public versus Economists by
Textbooks and Pure Fiscal Policy: The Neglect of Monetary Basics by and
Handling Economic Freedom in Growth Regressions: Suggestions for Clarification by and
Handling Economic Freedom in Growth Regressions: A Reply to Cole and Lawson by and
Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Household and Municipal Recycling? by
The Practical Utility of Economic Science by
Reasons for Supporting the Minimum Wage: Asking Signatories of the “Raise the Minimum Wage” Statement by and
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Table of Contents September 2006
On Testing the Connection Between Economic Freedom and Growth by
How to Handle Economic Freedom: Reply to Lawson by and
Assume the Positional: Comment on Robert Frank by and
Taking Libertarian Concerns Seriously: Reply to Kashdan and Klein by
Work Incentives and Employment Are the Wrong Explanation of Sweden’s Success by
Second Reply to Bergh by
A Little More Liberty: What the JEL Omits in Its Account of What the Economic Report of the President Omits by and
Benjamin Franklin and Colonial Money: A Reply to Michener and Wright—Yet Again by
Knut Wicksell, Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin and Gunnar Myrdal on the Role of the Economist in Public Debate by and
Do Economists Reach a Conclusion On Rail Transit? by and
Correspondence September 2006 by
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Table of Contents May 2006
Is the Swedish Welfare State A Free Lunch? by
The Welfare State Is the Wrong Target: A Reply to Bergh by
Farley Grubb’s Noisy Evasions on Colonial Money: A Rejoinder by and
The Costs of Critical Commentary in Economics Journals by
Why Has Critical Commentary Been Curtailed at Top Economics Journals? A Reply to Robert Whaples by and
Do Economists Reach A Conclusion on Road Pricing? The Intellectual History of an Idea by
A List of the 364 Economists Who Objected to Thatcher’s Macro Policy by
Reply to Hortlund’s “Defense of the Real Bills Doctrine” by
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Table of Contents January 2006
Foreword: Editor’s Report January 2006
Miscounting Money of Colonial America by and
Theory, Evidence, and Belief—The Colonial Money Puzzle Revisited: Reply to Michener and Wright by
In Defense of the Real Bills Doctrine by
Damned If You Do: Comment on Schuler’s Argentina Analysis by
Argentina’s Problems Went Far Beyond the Absence of a Strict Currency Board: Comment on Schuler by
Reply to David Altig and Brad Setser by
Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Taxi Deregulation? by and
Textbook Entrepreneurship: Comment on Johansson by
364 Economists on Economic Policy by
AEA Ideology: Campaign Contributions of American Economic Association Members, Committee Members, Officers, Editors, Referees, Authors, and Acknowledgees by
Sense and Sensibilities: Myrdal’s Plea for Self-Disclosure and Some Disclosures on AEA Members by
Correspondence January 2006 by
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Table of Contents August 2005
Rejoinder to Wittman: True Myths by
Second Reply to Caplan: The Power and the Glory of the Median Voter by
Gold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy by
Ignorance and Influence: U.S. Economists on Argentina’s Depression of 1998–2002 by
Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Free-Banking Episodes? by and
The Federal Reserve System’s Influence on Research in Monetary Economics by
Decline in Critical Commentary, 1963–2004 by , , and
The Role of Economists in Ending the Draft by
Correspondence August 2005 by , , , and
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Table of Contents April 2005
From Friedman to Wittman: The Transformation of Chicago Political Economy by
Reply to Caplan: On the Methodology of Testing for Voter Irrationality by
Rejoinder to Pesendorfer by , , and
Second Reply to Coelho, Klein, and McClure by
Information-Knowledge Symposium: Introduction by
Making Connections by
Information, Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom by
Information, the Tip of the Tacit Iceberg by
Information-Knowledge and Action-Knowledge by
Why Distinguish Between Information and Knowledge? by
Musings on Information and Knowledge by
Why the Distinction Between Knowledge and Belief Might Matter by
Symposium on Information and Knowledge: Arrow Correspondence by
Geo-Rent: A Plea to Public Economists by
The Ph.D. Circle in Academic Economics by
The Mathematical Romance: An Engineer’s View of Mathematical Economics by
Salute to Schelling: Keeping It Human by , , and
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Table of Contents December 2004
Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands by
“Credibility” in Context: Do Central Bankers and Economists Interpret the Term Differently? by
Identity and Politics in School Reform Research by
Fashion Cycles in Economics by , , and
Response to “Fashion Cycles in Economics” by
Rate of Economic Growth, Level of Development, and Income Inequality: Rejoinder to the Reply by Edwards and McGuirk by and
Scholasticism versus Pietism: The Battle for the Soul of Economics by
The National Research Council Ranking of Research Universities: Its Impact on Research in Economics by
Economics Without Entrepreneurship or Institutions: A Vocabulary Analysis of Graduate Textbooks by
Correspondence December 2004 by , , , and
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Table of Contents August 2004
Does Economic Performance Correlate with Big Government? by and
Kuznets Curveball: Missing the Regional Strike Zone by and
Response to Edwards and McGuirk: Income Level, Economic Growth, and Inequality: Flawed Methodology and Inaccurate Inference by and
Reply to Chang and Ram: Statistical Adequacy and the Reliability of Inference by and
Statist Quo Bias by
Response to Klein by
Reply to Sunstein by
Rejoinder to De Alessi by
Licensing Doctors: Do Economists Agree? by
The Development Set: The Character of the Journal of Development Economics 2002 by and
Institutional Ties of Journal of Development Economics Authors and Editors by and
Size Matters: The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review by and
Preference Falsification in the Economics Profession by
Learning to Lose a Leg: Casualties of PhD Economics Training in Stockholm by , , , and
Correspondence August 2004 by
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Table of Contents April 2004
Foreword by
Overlooking the Obvious in Africa by
How to Get Real About Organs by
Response to Tabarrok by and
Reply to Byrne and Thompson by
Stock Market Efficiency Withstands Another Challenge: Solving the “Sell in May/Buy after Halloween” Puzzle by and
An Ivory-Tower Take on the Ivory Trade by
Response to De Alessi by
Reply to Kremer by
Postal Reform by
Prohibition vs. Legalization: Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Drug Policy? by
Agricultural Economists and the State by
The Social Science Citation Index: A Black Box—with an Ideological Bias? by and
Citation Counts and SSCI in Personnel Decisions: A Survey of Economics Departments by and
In Sweden, Anti-Globalizationists Dominate Public Discourse, Econ Profs Do Little by and
Ken Kam and Market Efficiency by