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Volume 30, issue 3, 2010

Privatizing Money pp. 417-438

Leland B. Yeager

Alternatives to the Fed? pp. 439-449

Bennett McCallum

The Rule of Law or the Rule of Central Bankers? pp. 451-463

Lawrence White

The Futility of Central Banking pp. 465-473

George A. Selgin

Role of the IMF in the Global Financial Crisis pp. 475-489

Miranda Xafa

Crisis Prevention through Global Surveillance: A Task beyond the IMF pp. 491-504

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar

The IMF and Its Barbarous Relic pp. 505-511

Judy Shelton

Down with Stability pp. 513-520

James Grant

A Constant Unit of Account pp. 521-533

Richard W. Rahn

A Market-Based Regulatory Policy to Avoid Financial Crises pp. 535-540

Luigi Zingales

Book Review: Jimmy Stewart Is Dead: Ending the World’s Ongoing Financial Plague with Limited Purpose Banking pp. 541-546

Gerald P. O’Driscoll

Book Review: The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America pp. 546-554

Richard L. Gordon

Book Review: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves pp. 555-560

Aaron Ross Powell

Editor's Note

James A. Dorn

Volume 30, issue 2, 2010

The Constitutionalization of Money pp. 251-258

James Buchanan

The Great Crash of 2008: Causes and Consequences pp. 265-277

Deepak Lal

Learning about Policy from Federal Reserve History pp. 279-309

Allan Meltzer

Reassessing the Fed's Regulatory Role pp. 311-322

Charles Calomiris

Paradise Lost: Addressing Too Big to Fail pp. 323-331

Richard W. Fisher

Lender of Last Resort: What It Is, Whence It Came, and Why the Fed Isn't It pp. 333-364

Thomas M. Humphrey

Creating Financial Harmony: What Role for Government versus the Market? pp. 359-364

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Assessing the Financial Market Damage pp. 365-371

George Melloan

Is a Benign Dollar Policy Wise? pp. 373-381

William Poole

The World Economy: Bottoming Out or a Respite before the Next Crunch? pp. 383-389

Eswar Prasad

Debt and Systemic Risk: The Contribution of Fiscal and Monetary Policy pp. 391-396

Benn Steil

Government Housing Policy and the Financial Crisis pp. 397-406

Peter J. Wallison

Book Review: Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government pp. 407-409

Mark Calabria

Book Review: Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives, and Bankrupting the Nation pp. 409-412

Chris Edwards

Book Review: Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism pp. 412-416

Jason Kuznicki

Editor's Note

James A. Dorn

Volume 30, issue 1, 2010

Unions, Economic Freedom, and Growth pp. 1-22

Randall G. Holcombe and James D. Gwartney

Unions, the Rule of Law, and Political Rent Seeking pp. 23-44

Armand Thieblot

Why Project Labor Agreements Are Not in the Public Interest pp. 45-65

David G. Tuerck

Unions and Discrimination pp. 67-85

Paul Moreno

Public Sector Unions and the Rising Costs of Employee Compensation pp. 87-115

Chris Edwards

Unions and the Decline of U.S. Cities pp. 117-135

Stephen J. K. Walters

Prevailing Wage Laws: Public Interest or Special Interest Legislation? pp. 137-154

George C. Leef

The Effects of Teachers Unions on American Education pp. 155-170

Andrew J. Coulson

Right-to-Work Laws: Liberty, Prosperity, and Quality of Life pp. 171-180

Richard Vedder

Unions, Protectionism, and U.S. Competitiveness pp. 181-196

Daniel Griswold

Unions, the High-Wage Doctrine, and Employment pp. 197-213

Lowell E. Gallaway

Toward a Free-Market Union Law pp. 215-234

Charles W. Baird

Book Review: In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic pp. 235-242

William Poole

Book Review: Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy pp. 243-246

Mark Calabria

Book Review: The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools pp. 246-250

Neal McCluskey

Editor's Note

James A. Dorn

Volume 29, issue 3, 2009

Peter Bauer and the Failure of Foreign Aid pp. 379-390

Andrei Shleifer

What Can Aid Do? pp. 391-397

David B. Skarbek and Peter T. Leeson

Vikings in Greece: Kleptocratic Interest Groups in a Closed, Rent-Seeking Economy pp. 399-416

Michael Mitsopoulos and Theodore Pelagidis

Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power pp. 417-453

Jason Kuznicki

Predicting the Incumbent Party Vote Share in U.S. Presidential Elections pp. 455-468

Masoud Moghaddam and Hallie Elich

Tax-Spend or Fiscal Illusion? pp. 469-485

Andrew Young

Starve the Beast: A Further Examination pp. 487-495

Michael J. New

Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA's Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases pp. 497-521

Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger

Trade Protectionism and Electoral Outcome pp. 523-557

Miaojie Yu

The Undemanding Ethics of Capitalism pp. 559-565

William A. Niskanen

The Misuse of Economic History: Flawed Analogies with Japan's "Liquidity Trap" and the Great Depression pp. 567-585

Alan Reynolds

Book Review: Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism pp. 587-594

Jagadeesh Gokhale

Book Review: Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict pp. 594-599

Christopher Preble

Book Review: Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability pp. 599-607

James A. Dorn

Volume 29, issue 2, 2009

Effects of the Financial Crisis on the U.S.-China Economic Relationship pp. 223-235

Eswar Prasad

Economic Development and Growth: A Survey pp. 237-246

Meir Kohn

Can Latin America Prosper by Reducing the Size of Government? pp. 247-266

Radhames Lizardo and Andre V. Mollick

The Effects of Corruption on FDI Inflows pp. 267-294

Ali Al-Sadig

U.S. Energy Policy and the Presumption of Market Failure pp. 295-317

Peter Z. Grossman

The Potential for System-Friendly K-12 Reform pp. 319-334

John Merrifield

Mandatory Health Insurance: Lessons from Massachusetts pp. 335-351

Craig J. Richardson

On the Measurement of Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation pp. 353-364

Steve H. Hanke and Alex K. F. Kwok

Book Review: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World pp. 365-368

David Beckworth

Book Review: Small Change: Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform pp. 368-372

R. Sam Garrett

Book Review: The Libertarian Illusion: Ideology, Public Policy, and the Assault on the Common Good pp. 372-377

Jason Kuznicki

Volume 29, issue 1, 2009

Bailout or Bankruptcy? pp. 1-17

Jeffrey Miron

Origins of the Financial Market Crisis of 2008 pp. 19-23

Anna Schwartz

Reflections on the Financial Crisis pp. 25-30

Allan Meltzer

Monetary Policy and Asset Prices Revisited pp. 31-44

Donald L. Kohn

Asset Prices and Monetary Policy pp. 45-51

Otmar Issing

What Lessons Can We Learn from the Boom and Turmoil? pp. 53-63

Jeffrey Lacker

Financial Innovation, Regulation, and Reform pp. 65-91

Charles Calomiris

Bad Rules Produce Bad Outcomes: Underlying Public-Policy Causes of the U.S. Financial Crisis pp. 93-114

Bert Ely

Federal Reserve Policy and the Housing Bubble pp. 115-125

Lawrence White

The Case for Policy Sustainability pp. 127-130

Wolfgang Manchau

Moral Hazard in the Policy Response to the 2008 Financial Market Meltdown pp. 131-139

Andrew Samwick

Moral Hazard and the Financial Crisis pp. 141-166

Kevin Dowd

Money and the Present Crisis pp. 167-186

Gerald P. O'Driscoll

Interest-Rate Targeting during the Great Moderation: A Reappraisal pp. 187-200

Roger W. Garrison

The Way Forward: Incentives, Not Regulations pp. 201-207

William Poole

Book Review: AfterWar: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy pp. 209-213

Gregory M. Dempster

Book Review: Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy; Book 1 of Political Capitalism (A Trilogy) pp. 213-218

Richard L. Gordon

Book Review: On the Contrary: Leading the Opposition in a Democratic South Africa pp. 218-222

Marian L. Tupy

Editor's Note

James A. Dorn