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Watchpad: Trygve Hoff’s Appeal to Ragnar Frisch: Four Letters from 1941 by Trygve J. B. Hoff and Ragnar Frisch
translated by Hannes H. Gissurarson; Christianity Changes the Conditions of Government by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges; To Russia with Love: Boris Chicherin’s 1857 “Contemporary Tasks of Russian Life” by Boris N. Chicherin
translated by G. M. Hamburg; SSRN and medRxiv Censor Counter-Narrative Science by Jay Bhattacharya and Steve H. Hanke; Journal of Accounting Research‘s Report on Its Own Research-Misconduct Investigation of an Article It Published by Daniel B. Klein; What Are Your Most Underappreciated Works?: Second Tranche of Responses by Econ Journal Watch; Edward Westermarck’s Lectures on Adam Smith by Edward Westermarck
translated by Otto Pipatti; Gournay Lives! The Freedom of Labor in a Three-Part Exchange of the 1750s by Vincent de Gournay and Chamber of Commerce of Lyon
edited by Benoît Malbranque
translated by Benoît Malbranque, Jens Grandell, and Klas A. M. Eriksson; McCloskey’s 1988 Letter Responding to a Letter from the President of Penn State by Deirdre N. McCloskey; What Are Your Most Underappreciated Works?: First Tranche of Responses by Douglas W. Allen, Niclas Berggren, Christian Bjørnskov, Peter Boettke, Nick Bostrom, Bryan Caplan, Joshua Gans, Terri Griffith, N. Zoe Hilton, Daniel B. Klein, Douglas Noonan, Michael Ostrovsky, Sam Peltzman, Eric B. Rasmusen, Paul H. Rubin, Steven Sheffrin, Stefan Voigt, and Richard E. Wagner; Adam Smith’s View of Man by Ronald H. Coase; The Market for Goods and the Market for Ideas by Ronald H. Coase; The General Directing of Trade Cannot Be a Science: D’Argenson’s 1751 Commentary Essay and the Response to It by René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy, Marquis d’Argenson and Anonymous (a Bellonian)
edited by Benoît Malbranque
translated by Tobias Smollett and Benoît Malbranque; Hume’s Manuscript Account of the Extraordinary Affair Between Him and Rousseau by David Hume
edited by Daniel B. Klein, Jason Briggeman, and Jacob R. Hall; To Tolerant England and a Pension from the King: Did Hume Subconsciously Aim to Subvert Rousseau’s Legacy? by Daniel B. Klein; Adam Smith in Love by F. E. Guerra-Pujol; Knowledge and Humanity: The History of Economic Thought as a Refined Liberal Art by Kevin Quinn; What 21st-Century Works Will Merit a Close Reading in 2050?: Second Tranche of Responses by Mitchell Langbert, Andrés Marroquín, Steven G. Medema, Alberto Mingardi, Paul D. Mueller, Stephen R. Munzer, Evan W. Osborne, Justin T. Pickett, Rupert Read, Frank M. Scavelli, Hugh Rockoff, Kurt Schuler, Daniel Schwekendiek, Per Skedinger, E. Frank Stephenson, Scott Sumner, Cass R. Sunstein, Slaviša Tasić, Clifford F. Thies, and Richard E. Wagner; The Errors of Historicism in German Economics by Carl Menger
edited by Karen Horn and Stefan Kolev
translated by the Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy (NOUS); What 21st-Century Works Will Merit a Close Reading in 2050?: First Tranche of Responses; Edward Leamer Deserves a Nobel Prize for Improving Argumentation That Uses Statistics by Arnold Kling; It Will Soon Be 1984… by Ingemar Ståhl
translated by Alan Harkess; Bentham Versus Blackstone by Gertrude Himmelfarb; Lawrence Summers Deserves a Nobel Prize for Reviving the Theory of Secular Stagnation by Julius Probst; Adam Smith’s Library: General Check-List and Index by Hiroshi Mizuta; Convention: A Philosophical Study—Introduction, Chapter I, and Chapter II by David K. Lewis; Edmund Burke as an Economist by Donal Barrington; Thoughts and Details on Scarcity by Edmund Burke; Information for the Hair Dressers in Edinburgh; Against the Incorporation of Barbers—The Second Edition by Hew Dalrymple (pseud.?); Dissing The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Twenty-Six Critics, from 1765 to 1949 by Daniel B. Klein; The Educational Benefits of Obscurity: Pedagogical Esotericism by Arthur M. Melzer; Lectures on Domestic Policy by Adam Smith; Glimpses of David Hume edited by Daniel B. Klein; An Economic Dream by Erik Gustaf Geijer; Econ 101 Morality: The Amiable, the Mundane, and the Market by J. R. Clark and Dwight R. Lee; “Stop This Greed”: The Tax-Avoidance Political Campaign in the OECD and Australia by Chris Berg and Sinclair Davidson; Propagandistic Research and the U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency in Ordinary Life and Renewables in Electricity Production by Daniel Sutter; Slip and Drift in Labor Statistics Since 2007 by Clifford F. Thies; Undoing Insularity: A Small Study of Gender Sociology’s Big Problem by Charlotta Stern; The Social Theories of Classical Political Economy and Modern Economic Policy by Carl Menger
translated by Erwin Dekker and Stefan Kolev; How to Do Well While Doing Good! by Gordon Tullock; My Understanding of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator: A Symposium Prologue by Daniel B. Klein; The Impartial Spectator and Moral Judgment by Vivienne Brown; Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator by María Alejandra Carrasco and Christel Fricke; Impartial Spectating and the Price Analogy by Douglas J. Den Uyl; Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator: Symposium Remarks by Samuel Fleischacker; Natural and Artificial Impartiality by Michael L. Frazer; Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator: Autonomy and Extended Selves by Jimena Hurtado; On the Origins and Normative Status of the Impartial Spectator by John McHugh; Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator by Paul D. Mueller; Is Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator Selfless? by Maria Pia Paganelli; Peer Review and the Development of the Impartial Spectator by Craig Smith; The Fair and Impartial Spectator by Vernon L. Smith; The Logic of Reflection: Spectators Partial and Impartial by Robert Urquhart; My Understanding of Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator by Jack Russell Weinstein; The Meaning of Competition by Friedrich A. Hayek; Glimpses of Adam Smith: Excerpts from the Biography by Ian Simpson Ross by Ian Simpson Ross; Of Its Own Accord: Adam Smith on the Export-Import Bank by Daniel B. Klein; A Beginner’s Guide to Esoteric Reading by Arthur M. Melzer; It’s Not a Minsky Moment, It’s a Minsky Era, Or: Inevitable Instability by M. June Flanders; Skepticism About Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis: A Comment on Flanders by Lawrence H. White; Does Occupational Licensing Deserve Our Approval? A Review of Work by Morris Kleiner by Uwe E. Reinhardt; Capitalism and the Rule of Love by Clarence Philbrook; Euro Politics: An Interview with Roland Vaubel by Roland Vaubel; Rating Government Bonds: Can We Raise Our Grade? by Marc D. Joffe; Introduction to Symposium on U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis: Tipping-Point Scenarios and Crash Dynamics by Tyler Cowen; Some Possible Consequences of a U.S. Government Default by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel; The Bond Market Wins by Garett Jones; How a Default Might Play Out by Arnold Kling; Courting an Avoidable Financial Crisis by Joseph J. Minarik; How and Why a U.S. Sovereign Debt Crisis Could Occur by Peter J. Wallison; Economic Enlightenment Revisited: New Results Again Find Little Relationship Between Education and Economic Enlightenment but Vitiate Prior Evidence of the Left Being Worse by Daniel B. Klein and Zeljka Buturovic; Remarks from 1809 by Dupont de Nemours on Adam Smith by Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours
translated by Frederic Sautet; An Award for Calling the Crash by Mason Gaffney; The Unenlightening “Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology and Other Variables” by Roderick Hill; Economic Enlightenment Poll Creates More Heat Than Light by E. D. Kain; Identification Problems in Economic Enlightenment Surveys: A Comment on Buturovic and Klein by Daniel P. Kuehn; A Rigged Test: A Critical Look at Buturovic and Klein’s Conception of “Economic Enlightenment” by David F. Ruccio; 44 Economists Answer Questionnaire on the Pre-Market Approval of Drugs and Devices by Jason Briggeman, Daniel B. Klein, and Kevin D. Rollins; Economic Enlightenment in Relation to College-going, Ideology, and Other Variables: A Zogby Survey of Americans by Zeljka Buturovic and Daniel B. Klein; 305 Economists Called to Answer Questionnaire on the Pre-Market Approval of Drugs and Devices by Daniel B. Klein and Jason Briggeman; Confession of an Economist: Writing to Impress Rather than Inform by David R. Hakes; Preference Falsification in Teaching by Stephen Kinsella; Confessions of a College Non-Economizer by William Patrick Leonard; Economic Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Math Gamer, the Anti-Policy Econometrician and the Narrative Political Economist by Bruce L. Benson; A Reply to Daniel Klein on Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand by Gavin Kennedy; Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth by Gavin Kennedy; In Adam Smith’s Invisible Hands: Comment on Gavin Kennedy by Daniel B. Klein; Intellectual Hazard: A Liberal Selection of Quotations by Daniel B. Klein; Desperately Seeking Smithians: Responses to the Questionnaire about Building an Identity by Daniel B. Klein; Toward a Public and Professional Identity for Our Economics by Daniel B. Klein; Uncovering the Costs of the Iraq War by Fred E. Foldvary; Salute to Schelling: Keeping It Human by Daniel B. Klein, Tyler Cowen, and Timur Kuran; Ken Kam and Market Efficiency by Daniel B. Klein