December 2024 ISSUE

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Freedom in Hong Kong: The Sweet and the Sour

By Alvin Rabushka

Economic Freedom in Hong Kong The Fraser Institute's 2024 Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report,1 its most recent edition, ranks Hong Kong as the world's freest economy in 2022. Since the first report in 1995, Hong Kong has invariably ranked first, with a ra...
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Cost and Choice: Insights for Choosers

By Byron Carson

A Liberty Classic Book Review of Cost and Choice: An Inquiry in Economic Theory, by James M. Buchanan.1 In less than one hundred pages, James Buchanan excoriates economists—classical and modern—for their unrecognized confusions about cost. More than an in...
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Book Review

Seeking Truth versus Seeking Esteem

By Arnold Kling

So we have a way of telling which political activists actually care about society and which are merely trying to portray themselves as caring: The ones who actually care will exert significant effort to make sure that their beliefs are correct. —Michael Hue...
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Democracy’s Opportunity Cost

By Janet Bufton

A Book Review of Democracy for Busy People, by Kevin J. Elliott.1 Kevin J. Elliott's 2023 book, Democracy for Busy People, is for anyone interested in liberal democratic politics. The book is worthwhile for classical liberals in particular because it handles topi...
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When Searching for Monsters to Destroy, What Do We Fail to Discover?

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Can Price Controls Fight Inflation?

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Ludwig von Mises' Socialism: A Proper Defense of Liberalism

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The Entrepreneurial Justice of the Market Process

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Helmut Schoeck's Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour

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Speculations on Origins and Endings: An Essay on The Essential UCLA School of Economics

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Markets and the Hidden Superpower of Online Education

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Tax Justice

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Price Gouging Is Fine but Humans Are Better

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Could Kim Jong-un Really Mean It?

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For a Better Life in the Currency Union

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The Four Who Would Direct the World

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America First, and What It Might Cost

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If Immigration to America and Europe No Longer Pays

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Backwardation Economy

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Vladimir Putin: Victories and a Heavy Defeat

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For an Ever Closer Union

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"Che" Guevara in the Vatican

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Terrorist Winds

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Can Liberalism Survive in Democracy?

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Changing the Continent?

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Freedom and Duties, the Uninvited Guests

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The Evil Bogey of Secular Stagnation

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Irrelevant Inequalities, Part I: God Has Created All Men Equal. Or Has He?

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Russia Fails Once Again: Putin Must Punch Above His Weight

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The Sick Man of Europe: Afraid to Get Well

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Paved With Good Intentions Part II. Regulatory Zeal Does It

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How Many Cheers for Classical Liberalism?

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Double-Counting: Stop It, Please!

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Distributive Justice, Wet Rain

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The Python That Eats Itself by the Tail: A Self-Contradictory Theory of Capitalism

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Coronation, Social Contract and All That

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Having It Is Sinful

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Two Horses, Four Grooms

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Two Leaning Towers

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Secular Stagnation: Why and Why Not?

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Property or Property "Rights"

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Irresistible Immigration: The Lampedusa Dilemma

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More Euro-Fantasy

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From Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves

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Helicopter Money and Stone-Age Banking

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Those Selfish Germans

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Diversity Does It

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Presumptions Versus Good Ideas

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The Speculator's Bootstrap and the Efficient Market

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Collective Choice at Work

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Russia's Socialist Heritage

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The Price of Everything

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Instinctive Blunders: Job Protection and Redistribution

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Enough Folly is Enough

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Two Ways, But Where To?

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We All Prefer Growth to Austerity

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Class War by Judo

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The Platinum Rule

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Is S & P a WMD?

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Finance in Parrot Talk, Part II

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Finance in Parrot Talk, Part I

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Eurozone: It Seemed a Good Idea At the Time

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Can Sovereign Borrowing Be a Criminal Offence?

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Corruption, Parasitism, and the Abuse of Agency

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The Archbishop and the Accountants

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What Became of the Liquidity Trap?

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The Millstones of Egalitarianism, Part I. Distributionism By Facts-of-Life

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The Foolish Quest for Stability

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Negative Productivity

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Micro, Macro and Fantasy Economics

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The Best of the Worst: What Price Democracy

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Bank Debt, Sovereign Debt and the Dogs That Did Not Bark

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Two Cheers For Fiscal Austerity: Part II.

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Two Cheers For Fiscal Austerity: Part I.

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Is Society a Great Big Insurance Company?

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Is Society a Great Big Credit Card? Part II.

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Is Society a Great Big Credit Card? Part I.

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Come and Get Caught in My Trap

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Stone-Age Banking, Anti-Speculation and Rescuing the Euro

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Weeding Out the "Socially Not Useful"

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Ned Ludd, Handloom Weaving, and Franco-German Moral Banking

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They Wanted a New Order

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Who Is Afraid of the National Debt?

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Europeans Know Better: The Atlantic Cleavage on Financial Reform

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Thank Heaven for an Inefficient Market: A Tale of Zombies and Speculators

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A Fiscal Curb To Tame the State?

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Greed, Need, Risk and Regulation

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In Fantasyland: The Stressless Economy

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Butcher, Brewer, Baker, Banker: All Must Work by the Golden Rule

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Equal Poverty, Unequal Affluence

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The Fat Cats, the Underdogs, and Social Justice

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Open Season on the Capitalist Free-for-All

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To Spend or Not to Spend?

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Trudging Down the Third Way

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Cheap Talk: A Weapon of Mass Destruction: Asset Values, Expectations and the Apocalypse

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Oil, Gas and Bluster

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Incomes: Equalizing or Churning?

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Topping Up Welfare

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The Bootstrap Theory of the Oil Price

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When Is a Change a Good Thing?

Reflections from Europe Jun 2 2008

A Trillion-Dollar "Catastrophe"?

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The Use and Abuse of Taxes and Tax Havens

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Economics Textbooks: Teaching to Despise

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The Demise of GDP Is Premature

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Solvency and Liquidity: Some Financial "Crises" Are More Critical Than Others

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A Bill of Rights Europe Did Not Need

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The Political Economy of Force-Feeding

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Europe: More Secular and More Islamist

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Misbehaviour, Punishment, Prosperity. Part I. The Statist Legacy

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Low Pay

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When the Economy Needs Morals

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The French Tragicomedy

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The Capitalism They Hate. Part II. Indecent Earnings

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The Capitalism They Hate. Part I. The Inequality Machine

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Russia Hopping Along on Clay Feet

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Treasure Island

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The Failure of Market Failure. Part II. The Public Goods Dilemma

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The Failure of Market Failure. Part I. The Problem of Contract Enforcement

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The Yakoubovich Syndrome, or Lies, Damn Lies and Economic Policy

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Immigration: What is the Liberal Stand?

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Russia and the New Europe: Growing Apart

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Striving to Get Richer and Poorer

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Paternalism and Employment

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Stamp Your Feet and Demand a Fair Deal

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Hostile to Whom? "Economic Patriotism" To Resist "Market Dictatorship"

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Winning Policy Battles, but Losing the War Against Economic Realities

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Urban Riots: How the French Social Model Could Self-Destruct

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Turkey and the E.U. Club

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Some Bad News Could Be Good News

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Are High Oil Prices a Form of Exploitation?

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Paying Ourselves More of Their Money

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The Instability of the Welfare State

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What Now for "Europe"? Why the People Failed Their Masters

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Socio-Masochism: How Germany and France, the Sick Men of Europe, Torture Themselves

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Trying the Free Market. Part II. Unacceptable

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Trying the Free Market. Part I. Presumed Guilty

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A War of White Hats and Black Hats: A War of Attrition between Economic Reality and Political Dreams

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The Future of Europe: A Giant Free Trade Area or a Political Counterweight to America?

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The Seen and the Unseen. Part II. The Costly Mistake of Ignoring Opportunity Cost

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The Seen and the Unseen. Part I. On the Economics of Protecting Employment

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"Globalisation" and Its Critics: Mutual Gain vs. Cloud Cuckoo Land

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Weather Forecast: A Brightening of the Economic Skies over Brussels?

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The Doctrine of "Unequal Exchange": The Last Refuge of Modern Socialism?

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"Bread and Circuses" in the Modern Welfare State: Is the Worm Finally Turning?

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Jogging, Not Racing: European Cross-Currents and the Federalist Drift

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Economic Theories and Social Justice. Part II. Who Minds the Gap?

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Economic Theories and Social Justice. Part I. Risk, Value, and Externality

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Third Time Lucky in Russia: Can Putin Build a Real Economy from Oil and Rigour?

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Some Democratic Economics: If We Pay the Piper, Whose Tune Will He Play?

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The Things Labour Unions Are Up To: (Promoting general prosperity is not one of them)

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A Tadpole Constitution. Part II. Majority Rule by Any Other Name

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A Tadpole Constitution. Part I. How Confederacy Could Turn into a Federal Superstate

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Shall We Borrow from the Children?

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Free-Riding on the Euro

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Property and its Enemies. Part III. How to Get a Free Lunch? Just Apply for It.

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Property and its Enemies. Part II. Is Ownership a Myth?

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Property and its Enemies. Part I. "Design Faults" in Locke's Theory of Property Taint Ownership with Guilt

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Capitalism and Virtue: Politicians Do Not Understand the Economy, But Do Managers?

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Float or Sink? The Millstone of the "Social Market" in Germany

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More Nonsense on Stilts: Mr. Bentham Is At It Again

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Turkey Knocking on Europe's Door

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What Price Pride? On the Hidden Costs of Economic Illiteracy

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The Sins of the Fathers and the Sins of the Sons: Economic Consequences of a United States of Europe

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Thirty-five Hours

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Your Dog Owns Your House

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Better Economic Maps

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Persistent Differences in Gender Temperament

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Sociological Man

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Sermons from Evolutionary Biologists

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Two Theories of Mind

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How Economics Drives News Media

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Drop Your Intellectual Defenses

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Grandmasters of Self-Promotion

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Liberty's Discontents

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Twilight of the Bourgeoisie

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Intellectuals Caught in the Middle

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Order and the Wealth of Nations

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Fixed Personality Traits, Randomly Arrived At

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The Sexual Revolution as Primal Cause

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Wall Street Mysteries

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Encourage Dissent

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Economic Aspects of Trust

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Culture, Institutions, and Folkways

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The Virtues of Big Business in America

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Contemporary Society's Crumbling Pillar

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Minerva: An Experiment in Centrally Planned Education

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DNA Determinism

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Politics, Economics, and Evolution

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Markets without Friction

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Re-Imagining the Economist's Role in Policy

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Predictable Irrationality and the Crisis of 2008

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The Prophet of Google's Doom

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Tribal Psychology and Political Behavior

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Get the Story Straight

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Does Liberalism Destroy Liberty?

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Playing the Game of Life to Avoid Losing

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What Makes Capitalism Tick?

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Networks, Hierarchies, and History

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How Albion Seeded American Liberty

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Economics when Value Is Intangible

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The Simplicity Assumption

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Law, Legislation, and Leoni

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The Sociology of Sociologists

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Bobos' Paradise Lost?

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Lessons from The Best and the Brightest

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The Social Learning Animal

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