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Volume 36, issue 2, 2016

Editor's Note pp. 1-2

James A. Dorn

Revisiting Three Intellectual Pillars of Monetary Policy pp. 213-238

Claudio Borio

Rethinking the International Monetary System pp. 239-250

John Taylor

Commitment, Rules, and Discretion pp. 251-259

Charles Plosser

What Monetary Policy Can Do pp. 261-268

Jeffrey Lacker

The Powers and Limits of Monetary Policy pp. 269-278

Manuel Sanchez

Real and Pseudo Monetary Rules pp. 279-296

George Selgin

Friedman and the Bernanke-Taylor Debate on Rules versus Constrained Discretion pp. 297-313

Harris Dellas and George Tavlas

Nudging the Fed Toward a Rules-Based Policy Regime pp. 315-335

Scott Sumner

Monetary Policy and the Knowledge Problem pp. 337-352

Gerald P. O'Driscoll

Needed: A Federal Reserve Exit from Preferential Credit Allocation pp. 353-365

Lawrence White

The New Monetary Framework pp. 367-383

Jerry L. Jordan

Does the Federal Reserve Know What It's Doing? pp. 385-392

Alex Pollock

Learning the Right Lessons from the Financial Crisis pp. 393-413

Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson

Permazero pp. 415-429

James Bullard

Book Review -- Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government—and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency by William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe pp. 431-433

F. H. Buckley

Book Review -- Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage by Barney Frank pp. 433-438

Mark A. Calabria

Book Review -- The Tragedy of European Civilization: Towards an Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Harry Redner pp. 438-444

Juliana Geran Pilon

Book Review -- Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward P. Stringham pp. 444-448

Alain Marciano

Volume 36, issue 1, 2016

Editor's Note pp. 1-1

James A. Dorn

Introduction: Unintended Consequences of Government Intervention pp. 1-6

Joshua Hall and Jason E. Taylor

Reflections on the Current State of Political Economy pp. 7-15

Richard K. Vedder

Occupational Licensing and Interstate Migration pp. 17-31

Sean Mulholland and Andrew Young

The Unintended Consequences of the War on Poverty pp. 33-45

Lowell Gallaway and Daniel G. Garrett

Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated? pp. 47-53

Russell Sobel and Joshua Hall

A New Measure for the Variation of State Tax Prices pp. 55-67

Michael D. Stroup and Keith E. Hubbard

Fiscal Contraction and Economic Expansion: The 2013 Sequester and Post–World War II Spending Cuts pp. 69-88

Jason E. Taylor and Ronald L. Klingler

Young and Out of Work: An Analysis of Teenage Summer Employment, 1972–2012 pp. 89-99

J. Mixon and E. Frank Stephenson

New Evidence on the Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Productivity and Population Growth pp. 101-120

Michael Hicks, Michael LaFaive and Srikant Devaraj

The Dismal Productivity Trend for K-12 Public Schools and How to Improve It pp. 121-141

Benjamin Scafidi

Richard Vedder and the Future of Higher Education Reform pp. 143-164

Jayme S. Lemke and William Shughart

Subnational Economic Freedom and Performance in the United States and Canada pp. 165-185

Daniel L. Bennet

Book Review -- The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek pp. 187-190

Adam Bates

Book Review -- The Prize: Who's in Charge of Americas's Schools? by Dale Rusakoff pp. 191-194

Kevin Currie-Knight

Book Review -- Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Jared Meyer pp. 194-196

Esq. Aloysius Hogan and John Martin

Book Review -- Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell pp. 196-206

Gerald P. O'Driscoll

Book Review -- The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America by Arthur Brooks pp. 206-208

Roger Pilon

Book Review -- Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putnam pp. 209-212

Matt Warner

Volume 35, issue 3, 2015

The Myth of Dynastic Wealth: The Rich Get Poorer pp. 447-485

Robert Arnott, William Bernstein and Lillian Wu

Finance and Capital in the 21st Century pp. 487-505

Robert C. Jones

Central Bank Stress Tests: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous pp. 507-524

Kevin Dowd

China's Political-Economic Institutions and Development pp. 525-548

Chenggang Xu

Trust and the Growth of Government pp. 549-580

John Garen and J. R. Clark

Political Regime Stability and Economic Freedom pp. 581-602

Antonio Saravia

A Critique of Mazzucato's Entrepreneurial State pp. 603-625

Alberto Mingardi

Regulating Regulators: Government vs. Markets pp. 627-656

Howard Baetjer

New Legal Challenges to U.S. Agricultural Cartels: The Horne Decision pp. 657-667

Trevor Burrus

American Prosperity Requires Capital Freedom pp. 669-681

J. Christopher Giancarlo

Book Review -- Markets over Mao: The Rise of Private Business in China pp. 683-687

James A. Dorn

Book Review -- The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones—Confronting a New Age of Threat pp. 687-690

Jim Harper

Book Review -- Government against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences pp. 690-695

Ivan Osorio

Book Review -- Competition, Coordination and Diversity: From the Firm to Economic Integration pp. 695-698

Dalibor Rohac

Book Review -- The Conservatarian Manifesto: Libertarians, Conservatives, and the Fight for the Right's Future pp. 698-702

Ilya Shapiro

Volume 35, issue 2, 2015

Editor's Note pp. 1-3

James A. Dorn

Monetary Muddles pp. 179-192

Axel Leijonhufvud

Money and Banking: A Constitutional Perspective pp. 193-207

Walker F. Todd

Gold and Silver as Constitutional Alternative Currencies pp. 209-232

Edwin Vieira, Jr.

The Role of Gold in a Market-Based Monetary System pp. 233-250

Jerry L. Jordan

Law, Legislation, and the Gold Standard pp. 251-272

George Selgin

Fix What Broke: Building an Orderly and Ethical International Monetary System pp. 273-289

Judy Shelton

Transitioning Standards of Value in Fixed-Value Monetary Systems pp. 291-303

Nathan Lewis

An Agenda for Monetary Action pp. 305-313

James Grant

A Roadmap to Monetary Policy Reforms pp. 315-329

Norbert Michel

A Private Committee for Monetary Reform: Process and Substance pp. 331-345

Gerald P. O'Driscoll

The Bitcoin Revolution pp. 347-356

Bennett McCallum

Bitcoin Will Bite the Dust pp. 357-382

Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson

The Market for Cryptocurrencies pp. 383-402

Lawrence White

The Swiss Experiment: From the Lower Bound to Flexible Exchange Rates pp. 403-410

Peter Bernholz

Current Evidence on the Resource Costs of Irredeemable Paper Money pp. 411-427

Tyler Watts and Lukas Snyder

Book Review -- The New Counter-Insurgency Era in Critical Perspective pp. 429-434

Jennifer Keiste

Book Review -- This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible pp. 433-446

David B. Kopel

Book Review -- A Nation Wholly Free: The Elimination of the National Debt in the Age of Jackson pp. 434-439

Chris Edwards

Book Review -- Social Justice and the Indian Rope Trick pp. 434-443

Aaron Ross Powell

Volume 35, issue 1, 2015

The Power of Ideas and Leadership in China's Transition to a Liberal Society pp. 1-40

Weiying Zhang

Political Capitalism pp. 41-66

Randall Holcombe

Thinking Ahead of the Next Big Crash pp. 67-93

George Bitros

Income Inequality: Piketty and the Neo-Marxist Revival pp. 95-116

Thomas H. Mayor

The Impact of Economic Inequality on Economic Freedom pp. 117-131

Ryan Murphy

Welfare Economics and Second-Best Theory: Filling Imaginary Economic Boxes pp. 133-146

Richard E. Wagner

Book Review -- The Rule of Nobody: Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government by Philip K. Howard pp. 147-152

J. Kennerly Davis

Book Review -- Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change by Edmund Phelps pp. 153-158

Thomas A. Hemphill

Book Review -- Falling Behind? Boom, Bust, and the Global Race for Scientific Talent by Michael Teitelbaum pp. 158-162

Daniel Kuehn

Book Review -- Saving Congress from Itself: Emancipating the States & Empowering Their People by James L. Buckley pp. 163-170

Roger Pilon

Book Review -- The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending by Rebecca Thorpe pp. 171-173

Christopher A. Preble

Book Review -- Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream by Stephen J. K. Walters pp. 174-178

Richard E. Wagner