Economic Affairs

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Volume 40, month 10, 2020

Introduction pp. 323-323

J R Shackleton

The future of public service broadcasting and the funding and ownership of the BBC pp. 324-343

Philip Booth

The negative impact of barriers to entry on income inequality pp. 344-357

Dallin Overstreet

Thomas Aquinas on the conduct of sales pp. 358-366

Benedikt Koehler

Resource allocation at an income‐sharing community: An application of Elinor Ostrom's commons framework pp. 367-384

Nazli Azergun

Understanding the effects of growing central bank balance sheets on investment pp. 385-394

Bryane Michael

The COVID‐19 crisis: A public choice view pp. 395-405

Peter Zweifel

Hayekian complexity and the role of regulation in electricity markets pp. 406-418

Fuat Oğuz

Do regional trade agreements increase trade? Empirical evidence from the Asia–Pacific region pp. 419-435

Behrooz Gharleghi and Najla Shafighi

The Great Demographic Reversal pp. 436-445

Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan

On the benefits of risk‐sharing for post‐COVID higher education in the United Kingdom pp. 446-453

Peter Ainsworth and Tom McKenzie

Globalisation and free markets: The fly in the ointment pp. 454-459

J R Sargent

In defence of liberal peace: A response to Edwin van de Haar pp. 460-463

Jon Murphy

Rejoinder pp. 464-466

Edwin van de Haar

Classical liberals on ‘social justice’ pp. 467-483

Jacob Hall and Marcus Shera

BARRIERS TO GROWTH: ENGLISH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST TO INDUSTRIALISATION, by Eric L. Jones Palgrave Macmillan (2020), 153 pp. ISBN: 978–3030442736 (hb, £74.99); 978–3030442743 (e‐book, £59.99) pp. 485-488

Stephen Davies

SCIENCE FICTIONS: EXPOSING FRAUD, BIAS, NEGLIGENCE AND HYPE IN SCIENCE by Stuart Ritchie The Bodley Head (2020), 368 pp. ISBN: 978–1847925657 (hb, £18.99); 978–1473564251 (eBook, £8.33) pp. 489-491

J R Shackleton

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PROSPERITY: SUCCESSFUL SOCIETIES AND PRODUCTIVE CULTURES by Peter Murphy pp. 492-494

Charles Amos

TAX TYRANNY, by Pascal Salin Edward Elgar (2020), 224 pp. ISBN: 978–1789907025 (hb, £80.00); 978–1789907032 (e‐book, £25.00) pp. 495-496

Rory Meakin

Volume 40, month 06, 2020

INTRODUCTION pp. 129-130

J R Shackleton

Pandemics and the consequences of COVID‐19 pp. 131-137

Stephen Davies

The UK lockdown and the economic value of human life pp. 138-147

Julian Jessop

Italy and COVID‐19: Winning the war, losing the peace? pp. 148-154

Nicola Rossi and Alberto Mingardi

Beyond COVID‐19 lockdown: A Coasean approach with optionality pp. 155-161

Brian Williamson

Upward classism: Prejudice and stereotyping against the wealthy pp. 162-179

Rainer Zitelmann

American society through the prism of the Walker Tariff of 1846 pp. 180-197

Christopher Rowe

Fiscal and monetary interdependence pp. 198-208

G R Steele

Karl Mittermaier and the hands of classical liberalism pp. 209-219

Daniel B Klein

Money and economic development: A long‐run perspective pp. 220-236

Morten Sølvsten Schaiffel‐Nielsen

Beyond antitrust populism: Towards robust antitrust pp. 237-258

Aurelien Portuese

The trouble with naïve Keynesianism pp. 259-276

Tony Caporale and Marc Poitras

Luck or insight? The Simon–Ehrlich bet re‐examined pp. 277-280

Gale Pooley and Marian Tupy

Free trade does not foster peace pp. 281-286

Edwin van de Haar

Company purpose and profit need not be in conflict if we ‘grow the pie’ pp. 287-294

Alex Edmans

A return to political economy? pp. 295-306

Martin Ricketts

BEHAVIOURAL MACROECONOMICS: THEORY AND POLICY by Paul de Grauwe and Yuemei Ji Oxford University Press (2019), 272 pp. ISBN: 978–0198832324 (hb, £35.00); 019883232X (Kindle, £33.25) pp. 308-309

Geoffrey Wood

ORDOLIBERALISM AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC POLICY: BETWEEN REALPOLITIK AND ECONOMIC UTOPIA. edited by Malte Dold, Tim Krieger pp. 310-312

Jürgen Wandel

THE POWER OF MONEY: HOW IDEAS ABOUT MONEY SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD by Robert Pringle pp. 313-315

Alessandro Roselli

RADICAL UNCERTAINTY: DECISION‐MAKING FOR AN UNKNOWABLE FUTURE by John Kay and Mervyn King The Bridge Street Press (2020), 528 + xvi pp. ISBN: 978‐1408712603 (hb, £25.00); 978‐1408712580 (Kindle ed., £9.99) pp. 316-318

J R Shackleton

THE MENACE OF FISCAL QE by George Selgin pp. 319-321

Joakim Book

Volume 40, month 02, 2020

INTRODUCTION pp. 1-1

J R Shackleton

Hong Kong: Inevitably irrelevant to China? pp. 2-23

Kerry Liu

The natural rate of interest: An estimate for the United Kingdom pp. 24-35

Anthony Evans

Does social trust promote behaviour aimed at mitigating climate change? pp. 36-49

Nurullah Gür

Christian economics at the origin pp. 50-62

Benedikt Koehler

Does democracy die in recessions? A descriptive analysis of aggregate demand shortfalls and regime transition pp. 63-76

Ryan Murphy

The foreign aid–foreign direct investment relationship in Africa: The mediating role of institutional quality and financial development pp. 77-84

Olufemi Adewale Aluko

BDSM, body modification, transhumanism, and the limits of liberalism pp. 85-92

Ben Ramanauskas

Harold Wincott: Defender of liberal capitalism pp. 93-99

Geoffrey Owen

How trade openness can help to ‘deliver the poor and needy’ pp. 100-107

Walker Wright

Worrying about automation and jobs pp. 108-118

J R Shackleton

SUPER MAD AT EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME: POLITICAL MEDIA AND OUR NATIONAL ANGER by Alison Dagnes pp. 120-122

Stephen Wilkinson

MARGARET THATCHER: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. VOLUME THREE: HERSELF ALONE, by Charles Moore, Allen Lane pp. 123-125

Amy Horscroft

THE THIRD PILLAR: THE REVIVAL OF COMMUNITY IN A POLARISED WORLD by Raghuram Rajan, Harper Collins pp. 126-127

John Phelan