INDEPENDENT REVIEW – Volume 23 Number 3 • Winter 2019

Articles

The Road to Crony Capitalism: An Introduction 
By Robert M. Whaples

The Road to Crony Capitalism 
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By Michael C. Munger, Mario Villarreal-Diaz

Capitalism, Cronyism, and Democracy 
SUMMARY ONLY
By Geoffrey M. Hodgson

The Fall and Rise of Laissez-Faire in the United States, 1789-1900 
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By Burton W. Folsom Jr.

Dynamism as a Bump on the Road to Crony Capitalism? 
SUMMARY ONLY
By Michelle Albert Vachris

Crony Capitalism versus Pure Capitalism 
SUMMARY ONLY
By Walter E. Block

We Cannot Let Cronyism Overrun Our Economic Garden 
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By Nicholaus D. Sorrentino

Cronyism: Necessary for the Minimal, Protective State 
SUMMARY ONLY
By Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail R. Hall

Hunting the Big Five: Twenty-First Century Antitrust in Historical Perspective 
SUMMARY ONLY
By Richard N. Langlois

Leland Bennett Yeager: 1924-2018 
SUMMARY ONLY
By Roger G. Koppl

Stephen Margolis’s Contributions to Economics and Political Economy 
SUMMARY ONLY
By Peter J. Boettke
Book Reviews

Selfish Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives? The Foundations of the Libertarian–Conservative Debate 
By Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. Wenzel
Reviewed by James M. Strickland

The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies Have Emerged 
By Bas Van Bavel
Reviewed by Hilton L. Root

Restoring America’s Fiscal Constitution 
By John D. Merryfield and Barry W. Poulson
Reviewed by Richard M. Salsman

Cooperation and Excellence: A Premodern Case for Capitalism 
By George Bragues
Reviewed by John J. Thrasher IV

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress; 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos 
By Steven Pinker; Jordan B. Peterson
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

Stateless Commerce: The Diamond Network and the Persistence of Relational Exchange 
By Barak D. Richman
Reviewed by Lee K. Benham

What Is Classical Liberal History? 
Edited by Michael J. Douma and Phillip W. Magness
Reviewed by Robert E. Wright

Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities 
By Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro
Reviewed by Cecil E. Bohanon

The Progressive Era 
By Murray N. Rothbard, edited by Patrick Newman
Reviewed by Rok Novak

Discrimination and Disparities 
By Thomas Sowell
Reviewed by Ben O’Neill

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex 
By Rupert Darwall
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples

How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us: The Discipline at a Crossroads 
By Steven Payson
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
Etceteras

Two Worlds: Politics and Everything Else 
By Robert Higgs