Economic Affairs

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Volume 39, month 10, 2019

INTRODUCTION pp. 305-305

J R Shackleton

Forced technology transfer and China pp. 306-319

Bob Carbaugh and Chad Wassell

The case for freedom revisited pp. 320-329

Roland Vaubel

Is energy security really too important to leave to markets? pp. 330-345

Lawrence Haar

How can we correct for contingent valuation bias? A case study of the Macau Orchestra pp. 346-362

Thea Vinnicombe and Joey Pek U Sou

Multilateral trade liberalisation helps promote export product diversification: Trade tensions damage the prospects of the poorest economies pp. 363-380

Sena Kimm Gnangnon

The forced registration of hedge funds in the United States pp. 381-390

Steven James Lee and Edward W Kramer

The war on cash is about much more than cash pp. 391-399

Kevin Dowd

Is it just to pursue honest income? pp. 400-409

Daniel B Klein

The disadvantage of misunderstanding comparative advantage: A response to Sherman Xie pp. 410-416

Donald J. Boudreaux

The community of advantage pp. 417-423

Robert Sugden

Millennial Socialism: Same old, same old pp. 424-432

Kristian Niemietz

A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF BANK FAILURES: FROM MEDICI TO BARINGS ‐ By Sten Jönsson pp. 434-436

Geoffrey Wood

HOW SOLAR ENERGY BECAME CHEAP: A MODEL FOR LOW‐CARBON INNOVATION by Gregory F. Nemet pp. 437-438

Michael Jefferson

PEOPLE, POWER, AND PROFITS: PROGRESSIVE CAPITALISM FOR AN AGE OF DISCONTENT, by Joseph E. Stiglitz pp. 439-441

Morgan Schondelmeier

GRESHAM'S LAW: THE LIFE AND WORLD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I'S BANKER by John Guy pp. 442-444

Alessandro Venieri

ROCKONOMICS: WHAT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY CAN TEACH US ABOUT ECONOMICS (AND OUR FUTURE). by Alan B. Krueger pp. 445-446

Mark Littlewood

THE WEALTH OF RELIGIONS: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BELIEVING AND BELONGING by Rachel M. McCleary and Robert Barro pp. 447-448

Benedikt Koehler

THE MADNESS OF CROWDS: GENDER, RACE AND IDENTITY, by Douglas Murray pp. 449-450

James Tooley

Volume 39, month 06, 2019

INTRODUCTION pp. 169-169

J R Shackleton

‘Market failure’ arguments are a poor guide to policy pp. 170-183

Ryan Bourne

The political economy of ‘ordered competition’ in European telecoms pp. 184-196

Dmitrii Trubnikov and Ekaterina Trubnikova

Is entrepreneurship a virtue? pp. 197-215

Robert C B Miller

The Internet's impact on trademark applications pp. 216-231

Sena Kimm Gnangnon

Do health system reforms stand a chance? pp. 232-242

Peter Zweifel

Why comparative advantage is a problematic guide to practical policy pp. 243-250

Sherman Xie

The economics of the Books of Moses pp. 251-263

Benedikt Koehler

In defence of tax havens pp. 264-272

Jamie Whyte

Populism: Three approaches to an international problem pp. 273-281

Christian Bjørnskov

THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF WALMART: HOW THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CORPORATIONS ARE LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR SOCIALISM by Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski Verso (2019), 256 pp. ISBN: 978–1786635167 (pb, £9.99); 978–1786635181 (e‐book, £5.99) pp. 283-290

Christopher Snowdon

WHERE ECONOMICS WENT WRONG: CHICAGO'S ABANDONMENT OF CLASSICAL LIBERALISM by David Colander and Craig Freedman pp. 291-294

Peter Boettke

IN GOOD TIMES PREPARE FOR CRISIS. FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION TO THE GREAT RECESSION: SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISES AND THEIR RESOLUTION by Ira W.Lieberman pp. 295-296

Gabriel Stein

FIGHTING FINANCIAL CRISES: LEARNING FROM THE PAST, by Gary B. Gorton and Ellis W. Tallman pp. 297-299

Alessandro Roselli

HAYEK AND THE EVOLUTION OF CAPITALISM by Naomi Beck pp. 300-301

Charles Amos

AUSTERITY: WHEN IT WORKS AND WHEN IT DOESN'T. Edited by Alberto Alesina, Carlo Favero, Francesco Giavazzi pp. 302-303

Kent Matthews

Volume 39, month 02, 2019

INTRODUCTION pp. 1-2

J. R. Shackleton

Can economic multilateralism survive? pp. 3-24

Jean Pisani‐Ferry

Comment pp. 25-27

Bronwen Maddox

Prospects for an ordoliberal reform of the European Union pp. 28-43

Jürgen Wandel

How to draft ‘good’ minutes of monetary policy decisions pp. 44-64

Jan Fredrik Qvigstad

Sir Thomas More's Utopia: An overlooked economic classic pp. 65-80

Esa Mangeloja and Tomi Ovaska

How large is Vietnam's informal economy? pp. 81-100

Nguyen Thai Hoa

The long‐run effect of government ideology on economic freedom pp. 101-114

Ryan Murphy

How globalisation impacted Israel and India differently in the 1990s pp. 115-126

Erez Cohen

The mixed success of New Zealand's economic liberalisation pp. 127-137

Bryce Wilkinson

Empowering potential home owners: The UK should have a ‘small housing’ presumption pp. 138-144

Émilie Ciclet

Vocational skills and the university of the twenty‐first century pp. 145-152

Matthias Klaes

GREAT ECONOMIC THINKERS: AN INTRODUCTION – FROM ADAM SMITH TO AMARTYA SEN edited by Jonathan Conlin. Reaktion Books (2018), 311 pp. ISBN: 978‐1789140057 (hb, £20.00) pp. 154-155

Benedikt Koehler

ADVANCED INTRODUCTION TO NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS by Cristina Chaminade | Bengt‐Åke Lundvall | Shagufta Haneef, Edward Elgar (2018), 192 pp. ISBN: 978‐1785362019 (hb, £70.00); 978‐1785362033 (pb, £15.95); 978‐1785362026 (eBook, £15.95) pp. 156-157

Félix-Fernando Muñoz

WAR OR PEACE: THE STRUGGLE FOR WORLD POWER. by Deepak Lal. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (2018), 495 pp. ISBN: 978–0199482122 (hb, £29.99); 978–0199095315 (Kindle ed., £25.51) pp. 158-159

Julian Richards

THE BITCOIN STANDARD: THE DECENTRALIZED ALTERNATIVE TO CENTRAL BANKING by Saifedean Ammous Wiley (2018), 304 pp. ISBN: 978–1119473862 (hb, £22.99); 978–1119473862 (e‐book, £17.99) pp. 160-161

Luis Torras

F. A. HAYEK: ECONOMICS, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY By Peter J. Boettke, Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 350 pp. ISBN: 978–1137411594 (hb, €103.99); 978–1137411600 (e‐book, €83.2) pp. 162-163

Pedro Schwartz

WHY WOMEN HAVE BETTER SEX UNDER SOCIALISM: AND OTHER ARGUMENTS FOR ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE by Kristen R. Ghodsee Bodley Head (2018), 240 pp. ISBN: 978–1847925596 (hb, £12.99); 978–1529110579 (pb, £8.99); 978–1473563896 (e‐book, £12.98) pp. 164-166

Madeline Grant