Economic Affairs

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Volume 42, month 10, 2022

The Industrial Revolution as a collective action problem: The House of Commons games patents of monopoly, November 1601 pp. 418-441

Terence Kealey

Testing the total consumption model of alcohol pp. 442-452

Christopher Snowdon

Aid for Trade is more effective when the trading environment is more predictable pp. 453-476

Sèna Kimm Gnangnon

Was David Hume a racist? Interpreting Hume's infamous footnote (Part II) pp. 477-499

Kendra Asher

A response to Kendra Asher pp. 500-504

James F Fieser

The early Christian origins of voluntary poor relief pp. 505-514

Benedikt Koehler

The role of anti‐capitalism in Hitler's world view pp. 515-527

Rainer Zitelmann

By the same author: Presenting Adam Smith's works as a whole pp. 528-540

Daniel B Klein and Caroline Breashears

Economics laureates should disclose their political ideologies in policy petitions pp. 541-548

Emre Kuvvet

The fallacies of central bank independence pp. 549-558

James Forder

THE FUTURE OF MONEY: HOW THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION IS TRANSFORMING CURRENCIES AND FINANCE, by Eswar S Prasad pp. 560-561

Brandon Davies

THE POWER OF GEOGRAPHY: TEN MAPS THAT REVEAL THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD. by Tim Marshall pp. 562-564

Eric Jones

INTEREST AND CAPITAL: THE MONETARY ECONOMICS OF MICHAL KALECKI by Jan Toporowski Oxford University Press (2022), pp. 208. ISBN: 978–0198816232 (hb, £65.00); 978–0192548221 (e‐book, £45.41) pp. 565-566

Forrest Capie

BRITISH RAIL: A NEW HISTORY by Christian Wolmar pp. 567-570

J R Shackleton

THE MAGIC MONEY TREE AND OTHER ECONOMIC TALES pp. 571-573

John Phelan

Volume 42, month 06, 2022

Introduction pp. 209-209

J R Shackleton

Attitudes towards the rich in China, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam pp. 210-224

Rainer Zitelmann

Was David Hume a racist? Interpreting Hume's infamous footnote (Part I) pp. 225-239

Kendra Asher

The constitution of ambiguity: The effects of constitutions on economic freedom pp. 240-258

Ryan H Murphy

Is inflation caused by deteriorating inflation expectations or excessive monetary growth? pp. 259-274

Kent Matthews and Kian Ong

Whither monetarism? pp. 275-287

Scott Sumner

On monetary growth and inflation in leading economies, 2021–22: Relative prices and the overall price level pp. 288-306

John Greenwood and Steve H Hanke

Illiberal economic institutions and racial intolerance in the United States pp. 307-326

Walker Wright

Rethinking the pandemic narrative: An ordoliberal perspective pp. 327-343

Dmitrii Trubnikov

Venezuela's collapse: Exogenous shock or institutional design? pp. 344-360

Jorge Jraissati and Keith Jakee

The different obligations owed to small groups, the poor – and to participants in the extended market order: Anscombe, Hayek, Hume and usury pp. 361-368

Robert C B Miller

How might the United Kingdom's debt–GDP ratio be reduced? Evidence from the last 120 years pp. 369-384

Michael Wickens

Russia versus the West: Facing the long‐term challenge pp. 385-394

Michael Ben‐Gad

Is there a new case for reparations? pp. 395-408

John Tatom

A MONETARY AND FISCAL HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA, 1960–2017 edited by Timothy J Kehoe, Juan Pablo Nicolini pp. 409-410

Forrest Capie

A DUTY OF CARE: BRITAIN BEFORE AND AFTER COVID, by Peter Hennessy pp. 411-413

J R Shackleton

THE JOURNEY OF HUMANITY: THE ORIGINS OF WEALTH AND INEQUALITY by Oded Galor pp. 414-416

John Phelan

Volume 42, month 02, 2022

Monetary policy in a world of radical uncertainty pp. 2-12

Mervyn King

Equality Street: Ideology and attitudes towards the purely relative definition of poverty pp. 13-29

Andrew Dunn

Private regulation versus government regulation: The example of financial markets pp. 30-49

Philip Booth

Health economics explained through six questions and answers pp. 50-69

Peter Zweifel

International sanctions and development: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean (1950–2019) pp. 70-86

Fernando Gonzalez

Cognitive economics and the Market Mind Hypothesis: Exploring the final frontier of economics pp. 87-114

Patrick Schotanus

Dynamic efficiency and economic complexity pp. 115-134

Vicente Moreno‐Casas and Philipp Bagus

Gratefulness, resentfulness, and some modern slogans pp. 135-143

Daniel B Klein

John Blundell's cricket blueprint revisited pp. 144-160

Andy Stevens

Building from the bottom up: Politics after Covid pp. 161-167

Ruth Kelly

State of deception: Propaganda in the war on terror pp. 168-178

Abigail R Hall

Islamic and Western banking: A Chicago perspective pp. 179-185

Gerald R Steele

Time to put ‘money’ back into ‘monetary policy’ pp. 186-194

Julian Jessop

COGS AND MONSTERS: WHAT ECONOMICS IS, AND WHAT IT SHOULD BE by Diane Coyle pp. 195-197

Charles Amos

MONEY AND THE RULE OF LAW: GENERALITY AND PREDICTABILITY IN MONETARY INSTITUTIONS by Peter J. Boettke | Alexander William Salter | Daniel J Smith pp. 198-200

Geoffrey Wood

TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF MUDDLING THROUGH: THE SURPRISING STORY OF BRITAIN'S ECONOMY FROM BOOM TO BUST AND BACK AGAIN by Duncan Weldon pp. 201-203

Stephen Davies

THREE DAYS AT CAMP DAVID: HOW A SECRET MEETING IN 1971 TRANSFORMED THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Jeffrey E. Garten pp. 204-206

Michael James

Volume 41, month 10, 2021

Introduction pp. 353-353

J R Shackleton

What can we learn from the United Kingdom’s post‐1945 economic reforms? pp. 354-376

Nicholas Crafts

Gender quotas and company financial performance: A systematic review pp. 377-390

Jeong Jin Yu and Guy Madison

The challenge of removing a mistaken price cap pp. 391-415

Stephen Littlechild

Economic complexity and poverty in developing countries pp. 416-429

Sena Kimm Gnangnon

From bailout to bail‐in: Making banking a legitimate part of the market economy pp. 430-441

Pär Holmbäck Adelwald

A call to embrace jural dualism pp. 442-457

Jonathon Diesel and Daniel B Klein

The viability of the UK's assetless electricity retailers pp. 458-464

Lawrence Haar

Configuring Hayek versus Keynes: Decentralisation, regulation, and computational discovery procedures pp. 465-471

Ron Wallace

Tax tyranny: A classical liberal analysis pp. 472-475

Pascal Salin

Defending liberal individualism against communitarian critiques pp. 476-488

Graham Dawson

CONTROLLING CORRUPTION: THE SOCIAL CONTRACT APPROACH by Bo Rothstein pp. 489-490

Gabriel Stein

ECONOMICS IN ONE VIRUS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC REASONING THROUGH COVID‐19 by Ryan A Bourne pp. 491-492

Christopher Snowdon

TAXING SIN by Michael Thom pp. 493-495

Charles Amos

LEAVE ME ALONE AND I'LL MAKE YOU RICH: HOW THE BOURGEOIS DEAL ENRICHED THE WORLD pp. 496-498

John Phelan

ISLAM & ECONOMICS: A PRIMER ON MARKETS, MORALITY, AND JUSTICE pp. 499-500

Benedikt Koehler

THE POWER OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION: ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Philippe Aghion|Céline Antonin|Simon Bunel pp. 501-502

Nicholas Crafts

THE GYPSY ECONOMIST: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COLIN CLARK by Alex Millmow pp. 503-505

J R Shackleton

FULLY GROWN: WHY A STAGNANT ECONOMY IS A SIGN OF SUCCESS by Dietrich Vollrath pp. 506-508

Paul Ormerod

Volume 41, month 06, 2021

Introduction pp. 197-197

J R Shackleton

COVID‐19 and complexity: Hayekian economics and the world after the pandemic pp. 198-210

Stephen Davies

Attitudes to wealth in seven countries: The Social Envy Coefficient and the Rich Sentiment Index pp. 211-224

Rainer Zitelmann

Attitudes to work and time spent unemployed across 30 years pp. 225-240

Andrew Dunn

Sovereign wealth funds: A potential solution to market failure and government failure pp. 241-251

James Broughel

Changes in Italy's education‐related digital divide pp. 252-270

Giorgio Di Pietro

Nudges for better voters pp. 271-283

Nicolás Maloberti

Rising repair costs and the throwaway society pp. 284-298

John McCollough and Ailian Qiu

Hyperinflation, depression, and the rise of Adolf Hitler pp. 300-308

Alessandro Roselli

The right to move and the right to exclude: Ilya Somin and ‘foot voting’ pp. 309-312

Paul Graham

Migration and liberal dilemmas: A comment on Ilya Somin's ‘foot voting’ pp. 313-316

Stephen Davies

Rejoinder pp. 317-319

Ilya Somin

Interest rates or quantity of money? Edward Nelson on Milton Friedman pp. 320-335

Tim Congdon

CRAFTING CONSENSUS: WHY CENTRAL BANKERS CHANGE THEIR SPEECH AND HOW SPEECH CHANGES THE ECONOMY by Nicole Baerg pp. 337-339

Geoffrey Wood

CHINA'S GRAND STRATEGY AND AUSTRALIA'S FUTURE IN THE NEW GLOBAL ORDER by Geoff Raby pp. 340-342

Frank Milne

DYNAMISM: THE VALUES THAT DRIVE INNOVATION, JOB SATISFACTION, AND ECONOMIC GROWTH by Edmund Phelps, Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon, Gylfi Zoega pp. 343-345

Carlo Stagnaro

RELIGION AND THE RISE OF CAPITALISM by Benjamin M. Friedman pp. 346-348

Benedikt Koehler

RELENTLESS: THE FORENSICS OF MOBSTERS' BUSINESS PRACTICES, by Jerold L. Zimmerman, Daniel P. Forrester pp. 349-350

David Gindis

Volume 41, month 02, 2021

Introduction pp. 1-2

J R Shackleton

The fiscal and monetary response to COVID‐19: What the Great Depression has – and hasn't – taught us pp. 3-20

George Selgin

Can central banks run out of ammunition? The role of the money‐equities‐interaction channel in monetary policy pp. 21-37

Tim Congdon

Debt, deficits, and inflation pp. 38-50

Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood

Assessing the Powell policy review pp. 51-58

Robert Hetzel

Do enlarged fiscal deficits cause inflation? The historical record pp. 59-83

Michael D. Bordo and Mickey D. Levy

Poverty volatility and poverty in developing countries pp. 84-95

Sena Kimm Gnangnon

Salvador Allende's development policy: Lessons after 50 years pp. 96-110

Victor I. Espinosa

Impact of the Affordable Care Act on diabetes diagnoses in the United States: A county‐level analysis pp. 111-122

Rupa Palanki, Siva Chamarthy and Srinivas Palanki

International free riding on institutions pp. 123-140

Robert Gmeiner

Freedom through foot voting pp. 141-152

Ilya Somin

Samuel Brittan: Liberal Keynesian? pp. 153-161

Michael James

The mystery of Modern Monetary Theory pp. 162-174

Joakim Book

CHANGING TIMES: ECONOMICS, POLICIES, AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN BRITAIN SINCE 1951 by Martin Chick pp. 175-177

Nicholas Crafts

GREED IS DEAD: POLITICS AFTER INDIVIDUALISM. by Paul Collier, John Kay pp. 178-179

Emily Carver

YOU'RE HIRED: UNTOLD SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF A POPULIST PRESIDENT by Casey B. Mulligan pp. 180-181

John Phelan

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM AND THE INDUSTRIAL WORKING CLASS: THE ECONOMIC THOUGHT OF THOMAS HODGSKIN by Alberto Mingardi pp. 182-184

Pedro Schwartz

ULTIMATE PRICE: THE VALUE WE PLACE ON LIFE by Howard Friedman pp. 185-187

Christopher Snowdon

THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD: HOW THE WEST BECAME PSYCHOLOGICALLY PECULIAR AND PARTICULARLY PROSPEROUS by Joseph Henrich pp. 188-190

Benedikt Koehler

INVENTING IDEAS: PATENTS, PRIZES, AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY by Zorina Khan pp. 191-193

Félix-Fernando Muñoz