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Winter 2023/24
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The Winter 2023/24 issue ([link removed]) of The Independent Review is hot off the presses!

In this issue: Is it right for public employee pension funds to pressure corporate boards to adopt climate change policies? What is an economic recession, exactly? Was dropping nuclear weapons on Japan really necessary to win World War II or was Japan on the verge of surrendering? Can we understand markets without understanding cultures? How do we think about the economies of East Asia? Does the good of man’s soul fit with the logic of capitalism? (It does.)

As always, this issue’s contributors boldly challenge the intellectual status quo, forcing us to consider deeper alternatives that contest the cliché teachings of mainstream academia.

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Winter 2023/24 ([link removed]) Issue Contents
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Articles
The Fable of Shareholder Environmental Activism by Government Pensions ([link removed]) *
By Raymond Venner
Interpreting Atomic Bomb History: A Reply to Fuller’s “An Economic Case against the Atomic Bombing of Japan” ([link removed])
By Barton J. Bernstein
Interpreting Atomic Bomb History: A Response to Bernstein ([link removed])
By Edward W. Fuller
The East Asian Challenge for Market Liberalism: Toward a Hayekian Context-Specific Response ([link removed])
By Bryan Cheang
Singapore’s Small Development State ([link removed])
By Ryan H. Murphy
War and European Welfare Exceptionalism ([link removed])
By Chris Pope
Student Essay Contest Winners
Smith and Cicero on Philosophy in Action ([link removed]) *
By Phoebe Johnston
Pumping Gas and Siphoning Rents: The Political Economy of Self-Service Laws ([link removed]) *
By Samuel D. Peterson
Landlords, Banking, Merchants, and European Financial Systems: An Intellectual History of Richard Cantillon’s Innovative Entrepreneurial Theory ([link removed]) *
By Meredith Kottom
Reflections
The Classical Liberal Diaspora ([link removed]) *
By Michael C. Munger
The Rival Definitions of Economic Recession: Resolved ([link removed])
By John F. Gaski
Tyranny Reverse Engineered, Non-violent Resistance, and the American Heritage ([link removed]) *
By Lukas Abelmann
Review Essay
Vivek Ramaswamy on What’s Troubling America ([link removed]) *
By D. Eric Schansberg
Nineteen Book Reviews Including...
Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 ([link removed]) *
By Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger
Reviewed by Erwin Dekker
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The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism ([link removed]) *
By Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi
Reviewed by Alfredo Watkins
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New Deal Rebels ([link removed]) *
By Edited by Amity Shlaes
Reviewed by Tanner Corley
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Social Justice Fallacies ([link removed]) *
By Thomas Sowell
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
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Reality Is Tricky: Contrarian Takes on Contested Economic Issues ([link removed]) *
By Richard B. McKenzie
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
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