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Character Issues: Classical Liberalism in Russia by Paul Robinson; Classical Liberal Think Tanks in Greece, 1974–2024 by Constantinos Saravakos, Georgios Archontas, and Chris Loukas; A History of Classical Liberalism in the Netherlands by Edwin van de Haar; Classical Liberalism in Romania, Past and Present by Radu Nechita and Vlad Tarko; Classical Liberalism in Finland in the Twentieth Century by Jens Grandell; Liberalism in Colombia by Sebastián Rodríguez and Gilberto Ramírez; Classical Liberalism in Finland in the Nineteenth Century by Jens Grandell; Republicans Need Not Apply: An Investigation of the American Economic Association Using Voter Registration and Political Contributions by Mitchell Langbert; Liberalism in Brazil by Lucas Berlanza; The Stewart Retractions: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis by Justin T. Pickett; Captive of One’s Own Theory: Joan Robinson and Maoist China by Evan W. Osborne; The Liberal Tradition in South Africa, 1910–2019 by Martin van Staden; Hayek’s Divorce and Move to Chicago by Lanny Ebenstein; Icelandic Liberalism and Its Critics: A Rejoinder to Stefan Olafsson by Hannes H. Gissurarson; Adam Smith and His Russian Admirers of the Eighteenth Century by Michael P. Alekseev; Eugene F. Fama [Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates] by Daniel B. Klein; Lars Peter Hansen [Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates] by Daniel B. Klein; Economic Liberalism in Peru by Patricia Saenz-Armstrong; Liberalism in Ukraine by Mykola Bunyk and Leonid Krasnozhon; Liberalism in Ecuador by Pedro Romero, Fergus Hodgson, and María Paz Gómez; Anti-Liberal Narratives About Iceland, 1991–2017 by Hannes H. Gissurarson; From Political Advocacy to ‘Alternative Facts’: A Comment on Hannes Gissurarson’s Method by Stefán Ólafsson; Classical Liberalism in China: Some History and Prospects by Xingyuan Feng, Weisen Li, and Evan W. Osborne; Liberalism in Iceland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Hannes H. Gissurarson; My Most Regretted Statements: A Symposium Prologue by Daniel B. Klein; My Most Regretted Statements: Canada as a Welfare State by Monique Bégin; Fewer Than Sinatra: Three Quasi-Regrets by Michael J. Boskin; My Biggest Regret by Tyler Cowen; My Most Regretted Statements by Jon Elster; My Methodological Flip-Flop on Individual Liberty by Richard A. Epstein; An Economist’s Most Regrettable Statement by Sam Peltzman; The Statements I Most Regret by Cass R. Sunstein; Classical Liberalism in Italian Economic Thought, from the Time of Unification by Alberto Mingardi; Faculty Voter Registration: Rectifying the Omission of Two Florida Universities by Mitchell Langbert, Anthony J. Quain, and Daniel B. Klein; Faculty Voter Registration in Economics, History, Journalism, Law, and Psychology by Mitchell Langbert, Anthony J. Quain, and Daniel B. Klein; Eli Heckscher’s Ideological Migration Toward Market Liberalism by Benny Carlson; Liberalism in Korea by Young Back Choi and Yong J. Yoon; Liberalism in Mexican Economic Thought, Past and Present by Pavel Kuchař; Why Weren’t Left Economists More Opposed and More Vocal on the Export-Import Bank? by Veronique de Rugy, Ryan Daza, and Daniel B. Klein; Ideology Über Alles? Economics Bloggers on Uber, Lyft, and Other Transportation Network Companies by Jeremy Horpedahl; Venezuela: Without Liberals, There Is No Liberalism by Hugo J. Faria and Leonor Filardo; Classical Liberalism and Modern Political Economy in Denmark by Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard; Liberalism in India by G. P. Manish, Shruti Rajagopalan, Daniel Sutter, and Lawrence H. White; Classical Liberalism in Guatemala by Andrés Marroquín and Fritz Thomas; Classical Liberalism in Australian Economics by Chris Berg; Liberal Economics in Spain by Fernando Hernández Fradejas; Liberal Economics in Poland by Mateusz Machaj; The Endangered Classical Liberal Tradition in Lebanon: A General Description and Survey Results by Patrick Mardini; Classical Liberal Economics in the Ex-Yugoslav Nations by Miroslav Prokopijević and Slaviša Tasić; Classical Liberalism in the Czech Republic by Josef Šíma and Tomáš Nikodym; Economists on the Welfare State and the Regulatory State: Why Don’t Any Argue in Favor of One and Against the Other? A Symposium Prologue by Daniel B. Klein; Do Welfare State Liberals Also Love Regulation? by Dean Baker; Yes, There Are Hayekian Welfare States (At Least in Theory) by Andreas Bergh; The Strange Career of Regulation in the Welfare State by Marjorie Griffin Cohen; Two Ideological Ships Passing in the Night by Robert Higgs; Differences of Opinion Among Economists About Government and Market Efficacy by Arnold Kling; The Moral Narratives of Economists by Anthony Randazzo and Jonathan Haidt; Ideological Differences in Economics: Why Is the Left-Right Divide Widening? by Scott Sumner; Unhelpful Abstractions and the Standard View by Cass R. Sunstein; Ragnar Frisch and the Postwar Norwegian Economy: A Critical Comment on Sæther and Eriksen by Olav Bjerkholt; A Reply to Olav Bjerkholt on the Postwar Norwegian Economy by Arild Sæther and Ib E. Eriksen; Ragnar Frisch and the Postwar Norwegian Economy by Arild Sæther and Ib E. Eriksen; The Increasingly Libertarian Milton Friedman: An Ideological Profile by Lanny Ebenstein; The Ideological Migration of the Economics Laureates: Introduction and Overview by Daniel B. Klein; On the Ideological Migration of the Economics Laureates by David Colander; Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates; Economics Laureates’ Responses to Questionnaire on Ideological Migration by Econ Journal Watch; Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? A Symposium Prologue by Daniel B. Klein; Where Is the Next Rose Director? by John Blundell; Why Are There No Milton Friedmans Today? by David Colander; Why Is There No New Milton Friedman Today? by Tyler Cowen; Why There Is No Milton Friedman Today by Richard A. Epstein; Mistah Friedman? He Dead. by James K. Galbraith; The Uniqueness of Milton Friedman by J. Daniel Hammond; Why Milton Friedman Was Rare by David R. Henderson; Why There Is No New Milton Friedman by Daniel Houser; On Why There Is No Milton Friedman Today: Sui Generis, Sui Temporis by Steven G. Medema; Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? by Sam Peltzman; Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? by Richard A. Posner; Why Is There No Milton Friedman Today? by Robert Solow; Economics Professors’ Voting, Policy Views, Favorite Economists, and Frequent Lack of Consensus by Daniel B. Klein, William L. Davis, and David Hedengren; Characteristics of the Members of Twelve Economic Associations: Voting, Policy Views, and Favorite Economists by Daniel B. Klein, William L. Davis, Bob G. Figgins, and David Hedengren; The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom by Friedrich A. Hayek; Economics Professors’ Favorite Economic Thinkers, Journals, and Blogs (along with Party and Policy Views) by William L. Davis, Bob G. Figgins, David Hedengren, and Daniel B. Klein; Richard T. Ely: The Confederate Flag of the AEA? by Clifford F. Thies and Ryan Daza; The Never to Be Forgotten Hutcheson: Excerpts from W. R. Scott by W. R. Scott; A Life among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA by William R. Allen; Economics, Economists, and Economic Policy: Modern American Experiences by William R. Allen; Czech Economists on Economic Policy: A Survey by Daniel Stastny; Economist Petitions: Ideology Revealed by David Hedengren, Daniel B. Klein, and Carrie Milton; When the White House Changes Party, Do Economists Change Their Tune on Budget Deficits? by Brett Barkley; Convictions Opposed to Certain Popular Opinions: The 1903 Anti-Protectionism Letter Supported by 16 British Economists; The Scottish Tradition in Economic Thought by Alec Lawrence Macfie; Do Economists Believe American Democracy Is Working? by William L. Davis and Bob G. Figgins; The Present State of Economic Science by Glenn E. Hoover; Honestly, Who Else Would Fund Such Research? Reflections of a Non-Smoking Scholar by Michael L. Marlow; Left Out: A Critique of Paul Krugman Based on a Comprehensive Account of His New York Times Columns, 1997 through 2006 by Daniel B. Klein and Harika Anna Barlett; Economists Against Smoot-Hawley; The Role of Economists in Liberalizing Swedish Agriculture by Henrik Lindberg; The Practical Utility of Economic Science by Edwin Cannan; Knut Wicksell, Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin and Gunnar Myrdal on the Role of the Economist in Public Debate by Benny Carlson and Lars Jonung; A List of the 364 Economists Who Objected to Thatcher’s Macro Policy by Philip Booth; 364 Economists on Economic Policy by Geoffrey Wood; AEA Ideology: Campaign Contributions of American Economic Association Members, Committee Members, Officers, Editors, Referees, Authors, and Acknowledgees by William A. McEachern; Sense and Sensibilities: Myrdal’s Plea for Self-Disclosure and Some Disclosures on AEA Members by Daniel B. Klein; The Role of Economists in Ending the Draft by David R. Henderson; The Mathematical Romance: An Engineer’s View of Mathematical Economics by Warren C. Gibson; Scholasticism versus Pietism: The Battle for the Soul of Economics by Robert H. Nelson; Preference Falsification in the Economics Profession by William L. Davis; Learning to Lose a Leg: Casualties of PhD Economics Training in Stockholm by Anne D. Boschini, Matthew J. Lindquist, Jan Pettersson, and Jesper Roine