May 2026 ISSUE

Book Review

Judy Shelton: Good as Gold?

By Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Judy Shelton has earned media attention for her criticisms of Federal Reserve policy. In July of 2025, during an online interview with Steve Bannon, she accused Fed chair Jerome Powell of “setting himself up as some kind of an emperor” merely because he had tentativel...
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Article

We Can’t Agree on Inequality—Here’s Why

By Maurizio Bovi

Centuries of argument have left a stubborn question unresolved: how much economic inequality is acceptable? Unlike inequalities rooted in race, gender, or disability—which typically attract broad moral condemnation—economic inequality in income, consumption, and wealth ...
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Article

Of Course We’re Still Reading Wealth of Nations

By Craig Smith

"[W]hatever we may think of Smith and the Wealth of Nations they did become symbolic of the new discipline of economics through the centuries and it hardly befits us to question the judgments of past generations’s assessments of the value of a work they read for thems...
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“Very difficult, perhaps altogether impossible”: Smith’s political science

By Jacob T. Levy

Yet the argument of Book V of Wealth of Nations is something quite different. Over hundreds of pages, Smith patiently shows why both peace and a tolerable administration of justice are historically rare, and continually fragile. To the extent that some society or other ...
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Using Reason to Understand the Abuse and Decline of Reason

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Coordinated Conflict: A Property Rights Perspective on Traffic

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Interpreting Social and Economic Evolution

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A Child Comes With His Own Bread

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Can Government Intervention Work?

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What Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Teach You About the Economics of Property Rights

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When Searching for Monsters to Destroy, What Do We Fail to Discover?

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The Economics of Quiet Quitting: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

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Monopoly and Barriers to Entry: Old Wine in New Bottles

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Can Price Controls Fight Inflation?

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Ludwig von Mises' Socialism: A Proper Defense of Liberalism

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The Entrepreneurial Justice of the Market Process

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Private Property and Social Justice: Complements or Substitutes?

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Israel Kirzner and the "European Miracle"

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Poverty IN America

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Conceived in Liberty or Conceived in Sin? Exploitation and Modern Prosperity

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Helmut Schoeck's Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour

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Setting the Record Straight on Income Inequality

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Let Go of the Zero-Sum Fallacy and Enjoy Others' Good Fortune

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From Here to Serenity: How Public Choice Makes Me Less Cynical

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Where Is the Free Market Utopia?

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Is Market Failure a Sufficient Condition for Government Intervention?

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