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Volume 31, month 10, 2011

EDITORIAL: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PROTECTIONISM pp. 2-3

Stephen Davies

DO SUBSIDIES JUSTIFY RETALIATORY PROTECTIONISM? pp. 4-6

Donald J. Boudreaux

THE NEW NEO‐MERCANTILISM: CURRENCY MANIPULATION AS A FORM OF PROTECTIONISM pp. 7-11

Paul F. Cwik

WHY ARE TRADE BARRIERS SO LOW? pp. 12-17

Christopher S. P. Magee

TRADE, MERCANTILISM AND NATION‐BUILDING pp. 18-22

Stephen Davies

UK UNCUT UNRAVELLED pp. 23-27

Tim Worstall

SCHOOLING FOR MONEY: SWEDISH EDUCATION REFORM AND THE ROLE OF THE PROFIT MOTIVE pp. 28-35

Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

TOWARDS SOUND MONETARY INSTITUTIONS pp. 36-40

Dalibor Roháč

CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM AND CALCULATION pp. 41-45

Brent Butgereit and Art Carden

PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY AND HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM pp. 46-48

Stephen Michael MacLean

THE BISHOP OF BRENTWOOD, MIGRANTS, THE MARKET AND THE PURSUIT OF GAIN pp. 49-50

Philip Booth

WAR AND LIBERTY: WISDOM FROM LEONARD E. READ AND F. A. ‘BALDY’ HARPER pp. 51-53

Christopher Coyne and Nicholas Snow

IN PRAISE OF IDEOLOGICAL OPENNESS pp. 54-55

Daniel Klein

AN ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIC DEFENCE AND SECURITY REVIEW: RECONSTITUTING A SHRINKING FORCE pp. 56-59

Edward Longinotti

US FISCAL STIMULUS HAS FAILED pp. 60-60

Tim Congdon

LIBERTY OUTSIDE THE WEST pp. 61-61

Razeen Sally

IMPACT INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION pp. 62-62

James Stanfield

EU GETS A TASTE OF ITS OWN MEDICINE pp. 63-63

Roger Bate

ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIVE GOVERNMENT: THE VALUE OF EARMARKED TAXATION pp. 64-64

John Meadowcroft

Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy – By Mark Pennington pp. 65-66

Ralf M. Bader

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier – By Edward L. Glaeser pp. 66-67

Emily B. Washington

The Rise and Fall of Great Companies: Courtaulds and the Reshaping of the Man‐Made Fibres Industry – By Geoffrey Owen pp. 67-68

Steven Toms

To Serve God and Wal‐Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise – By Bethany Moreton pp. 68-70

Art Carden

Finance at the Threshold: Rethinking the Real and Financial Economies – By Christopher Houghton Budd pp. 70-71

Arthur Edwards

Volume 31, month 09, 2011

Oxfam, Malthus and the Worst Prediction in Economic History pp. 1-1

Stephen Davies

UK Uncut Unravelled pp. 2-3

Tim Worstall

The New Paternalism: Unravelling ‘Nudge’ pp. 4-4

Glen Whitman

Volume 31, month 06, 2011

Does the Market Need to Be Made Social? pp. 1-1

Gisela Stuart

EDITORIAL: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY — PRIVATE CHOICE OR PUBLIC CHOICE? pp. 2-3

Richard Wellings

The Economic (and Moral) Case Against Capping Directors' Remuneration pp. 2-3

Stephen Copp

CLIMATE POLITICS, STRATEGIC BEHAVIOUR, HOLD‐OUTS, FREE RIDERS AND RENT‐SEEKERS pp. 4-9

Gordon L. Brady

Banking Reform – Making Banks Pay for Their Mistakes pp. 4-4

Andrew Lilico

COPENHAGEN, CANCÚN AND THE LIMITS OF GLOBAL WELFARE ECONOMICS pp. 10-16

David Campbell and Matthias Klaes

COMMUNITY CONSERVATION IN NAMIBIA: EMPOWERING THE POOR WITH PROPERTY RIGHTS pp. 17-24

Karol Boudreaux and Fred Nelson

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FOREST RIGHTS ACT IN INDIA: CRITICAL ISSUES pp. 25-29

Debnarayan Sarker

CHARTERS, PARTNERSHIPS AND NATURAL RESOURCES: TWO CASES OF ENDOGENOUS REGULATION IN ITALY pp. 30-35

Claudio Tagliapietra

HOW DID PAUL KRUGMAN GET IT SO WRONG?-super-1 pp. 36-40

John Cochrane

COMMODITY MARKET REGULATION AFTER FINANCIAL CRISIS: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH pp. 41-46

Renee E. Pirrong

THE PORTUGUESE MALAISE: STRUCTURAL CAUSES OF THE CRISIS AND LESSONS FOR THE EUROZONE pp. 47-52

André Azevedo Alves

THE EU/IMF RESCUE PROGRAMME FOR IRELAND: 2010–13 pp. 53-57

Sean D. Barrett

CONTROL POLICIES TO COMBAT THE HEALTH RISKS FROM SMOKING AND PASSIVE SMOKING-super-1 pp. 58-62

Jeannie Cameron, Barrie M. Craven and Michael Marlow

FINANCIAL GLOBALISATION: PAST AND PRESENT pp. 63-67

Dilip K. Das

INNOVATION, COMPETITION AND ANTITRUST: AN EXAMINATION OF THE INTEL CASE pp. 68-75

Luca Mazzone and Alberto Mingardi

ECONOMIC RECESSIONS, BANKING REFORM AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM-super-1 pp. 76-84

Jesús Huerta de Soto

EUROPE – HOW CAN THINGS GET BETTER? pp. 85-87

Charlie McCreevy

COMMENT ON THE 2010 WINCOTT LECTURE, ‘EUROPE: HOW CAN THINGS GET BETTER?’ pp. 88-89

Roland Vaubel

ON THE DELIBERATE CENTRALITY OF AN INVISIBLE HAND: REPLY TO GAVIN KENNEDY, RYAN HANLEY AND CRAIG SMITH pp. 90-92

Daniel Klein and Brandon Lucas

FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EARLY ISLAM pp. 93-95

Benedikt Koehler

AGAINST LEVIATHAN: A REVIEW OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF NORMAN P. BARRY-super-1 pp. 96-97

Dennis O'Keeffe

CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL SUPPORT FOR HAYEKIAN LIMITS TO ECONOMIC MODELLING pp. 98-101

Bryan A. Williamson

NAÏVE ATTACKS ON QUANTITATIVE EASING SHOULD BE IGNORED pp. 102-102

Tim Congdon

CHINA IN THE BIG THREE pp. 103-103

Razeen Sally

RICHARD COBDEN ON EDUCATION pp. 104-104

James Stanfield

ARE DRUGS MADE IN EMERGING MARKETS GOOD QUALITY? pp. 105-105

Roger Bate

MUST GOVERNMENT FEAR THE BOOM AND BUST? pp. 106-106

John Meadowcroft

Political Philosophy, Clearly: Essays on Freedom and Fairness, Property and Equalities – By Anthony de Jasay pp. 107-108

Aschwin de Wolf

Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age – By Adrian Johns pp. 108-109

John Blundell

Edmund Burke – By Dennis O'Keeffe pp. 109-111

Rodney Atkinson

Volume 31, month 03, 2011

Note from the Editor pp. 0-0

Steve Davies

Selling the Right to Immigrate pp. 1-1

Gary Becker

EDITORIAL: GAMBLING, THE STATE AND THE MARKET pp. 2-3

Chris Brady

The Euro Crisis Is Not Over! pp. 2-3

Holger Zemanek

PROMETHEUS BOUND: RELEASING THE CHAINS ON PARI‐MUTUEL GAMBLING pp. 4-8

Brian Sturgess

Should We Sacrifice Economic Growth for Equality? pp. 4-4

Chris Snowdon

THE SOCIAL BENEFITS OF GAMBLING pp. 9-13

Patrick Basham and John Luik

IT IS TIME TO RECONSIDER UK GAMBLING POLICY pp. 14-19

Gary Loveman

THE POLITICS OF CASINO GAMBLING pp. 20-26

Marc W. Etches

AFTER THE GREAT RECESSION: THE FUTURE OF CASINO GAMING IN AMERICA AND EUROPE pp. 27-33

William Eadington

GAMBLING AND REGULATION: WHY THERE IS NOTHING TO FEAR FROM LIBERALISATION pp. 34-37

Mark Littlewood

THE ROOTS OF MODERN ‘SOCIAL COST OF GAMBLING’ ESTIMATES pp. 38-42

Douglas Walker and Shannon M. Kelly

IN A WORD OR TWO, PLACED IN THE MIDDLE: THE INVISIBLE HAND IN SMITH'S TOMES pp. 43-52

Daniel Klein and Brandon Lucas

ADAM SMITH AND THE ROLE OF THE METAPHOR OF AN INVISIBLE HAND pp. 53-57

Gavin Kennedy

A COMMENT ON THE CENTRALITY OF THE INVISIBLE HAND pp. 58-59

Craig Smith

A COMMENT ON THE CENTRALITY OF THE INVISIBLE HAND pp. 60-61

Ryan Hanley

MILTON FRIEDMAN ON THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF FISCAL POLICY pp. 62-65

Tim Congdon

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION: A CASE AGAINST BUILDING EVER‐HIGHER FENCES pp. 66-72

Piotr Zientara

USING WEB 2.0 TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE OF CONSTRUCTION SAFETY: THE FABLE OF ECONOMIC ANIMALS pp. 73-79

Rita Yi Man Li and Sun Wah Poon

AN ANALYSIS OF THE WELFARE CUTS IN THE COMPREHENSIVE SPENDING REVIEW AND THE BUDGET 2010 pp. 80-85

Kristian Niemietz

RESPONSIBILITY AND CAPABILITY pp. 86-89

Peter King

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE ‘LADDER OF INVESTMENT’ APPROACH TO REGULATION pp. 90-95

Fernando Herrera‐González and Luis Castejón‐Martín

TOBACCO DISPLAY BANS: A GLOBAL FAILURE pp. 96-102

Patrick Basham and John Luik

LACK OF RIGOUR IN DEFENDING FAIRTRADE: A REJOINDER TO ALISTAIR SMITH pp. 103-104

Peter Griffiths

WHEN PATERNALISM MEETS BOGUS ECONOMICS: THE NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION'S 21 HOURS REPORT pp. 105-108

Kristian Niemietz

THE ECONOMIST MOHAMMED IBN ABDULLAH (570–632) pp. 109-111

Benedikt Koehler

DEVELOPING A NEW PARADIGM FOR UK FOREIGN AID pp. 112-114

Thomas Fisher

BROADCASTING LICENCE FEE SETTLEMENTS IN THE UK AND GERMANY pp. 115-117

Christian Potschka

ARE OFFICIAL POVERTY STATISTICS NECESSARY? pp. 118-120

Kristian Niemietz

RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE ‘NUDGE’ PHILOSOPHY-super-1 pp. 121-122

Philip Booth

BRITAIN TOO SANGUINE ON MINIMUM WAGE pp. 123-126

Karthik Reddy

THE CASE FOR A COMMUNITY TRANSACTION ENGINE: GETTING COASE FOR THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY pp. 127-130

Wingham Rowan

DEVELOPMENT THROUGH FAIR TRADE: CANDOUR OR DECEPTION? pp. 131-134

Paul Stoddart

‘MONEY PRINTING’ IN THE MODERN BANKING SYSTEM pp. 135-135

Tim Congdon

TWENTY‐FIRST‐CENTURY ILLIBERALISM AND THE CRISIS pp. 136-136

Razeen Sally

HIGHER EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES pp. 137-137

James Stanfield

AID AGENCIES TURNING A BLIND EYE TO STOLEN DRUGS pp. 138-138

Roger Bate

THE COALITION: PLUS ÇA CHANGE pp. 139-139

John Meadowcroft

Jimmy Stewart is Dead: Ending the World's Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking – By Laurence J. Kotlikoff pp. 140-141

William Luther

The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future – By Arthur C. Brooks pp. 141-141

John Blundell

The Trouble with Markets: Saving Capitalism from Itself – By Roger Bootle pp. 141-142

Dan Osborne

Follow the Money – By David McWilliams pp. 142-143

Brian Gerard Canny and David Howden