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  features
 

The Rights of the Future?
Oliver Marc Hartwich

Ten Principles for Tax Reform
Robert Carling

Justice and Markets
Richard Mulgan

Is Government the Best Risk Manager?
Henry Ergas

What Do Economic Liberals Believe?
Andrew Norton

Public Health and the New Paternalism
Eric Crampton

  book_review
 

Give Smith a Chance
Paul Comrie-Thomson interviews PJ O’Rourke about Adam Smith, France, the American car industry, and much else.

  review
 

Authoritarian Economics

The Sub-Prime Solution
By Robert Shiller
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
By George Akerlof and Robert Shiller

Reviewed by Stephen Kirchner

Working towards Liberation
Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture
By Sarah Maddison

Reviewed by Joe Lane


  book_review
 

The Ascent of Money—A Financial History of the World
By Niall Ferguson
Reviewed by Martin Sheehan

The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
By David Kilcullen
Reviewed by Peter Leahy

Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis
By John Taylor
Reviewed by Brendan Duong

Don’t Leave Us with the Bill: The Case against an Australian Bill of Rights
Edited by Julian Leeser and Ryan Haddrick
Reviewed by Andrew Baker

Filthy Lucre: Economics for Those Who Hate Capitalism
By Joseph Heath
Reviewed by Jeremy Bray

Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-Fascist
By Irfan Yusuf
Reviewed by Tanveer Ahmed


 
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