Virus and Leviathan: Symposium on Public Health and Policy in a Free Society
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Virus and Leviathan
Symposium on Public Health and Policy in a Free Society
The Independent Review · Spring 2021
In response to COVID-19, governments have activated their regulatory machinery, including detainments, surveillance, lockdowns, the shuttering of schools and “nonessential” businesses, and travel restrictions.

Our Spring 2021 Symposium addresses a host of issues related to governments’ response to COVID-19. What should be the role and limits of government in responding to health crises? How might regulations reduce well-being by stifling innovation and adaptations? How do government responses to health crises empower Leviathan in ways that threaten individual liberty?

This issue also features articles on free speech, property rights, economic liberty, and democracy, as well as twelve reviews of important new books.

Full issues of The Independent Review are available in downloadable eBook format (PDF, EPUB, and MOBI) for just $2.99, or print for $11.95.
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Co-Editors:
Christopher J. Coyne
Michael C. Munger
Robert M. Whaples

Founding Editor:
Robert Higgs

Published Quarterly
Peer Reviewed
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Articles
Virus and Leviathan: Symposium on Public Health and Policy in a Free Society ([link removed]) *
By Christopher J. Coyne
Economics, COVID-19, and the Entangled Political Economy of Public Health ([link removed])
By Richard E. Wagner
The Origins and Political Persistence of COVID-19 Lockdowns ([link removed])
By Phillip W. Magness, Peter C. Earle
Flatten the Bureaucracy: Deregulation and COVID-19 Testing ([link removed])
By Raymond J. March
Infectious Diseases and Government Growth ([link removed]) *
By Nathan P. Goodman, Christopher J. Coyne, Abigail Devereaux
Automatons or Individuals? Voluntary Responses to COVID-19-Related Epidemic Externalities ([link removed])
By Byron B. Carson III
Free-Speech Rights versus Property and Privacy Rights: “Ag-Gag” Laws and the Limits of Property Rights ([link removed])
By Ian J. Drake
Why Italy’s Season of Economic Liberalism Did Not Last ([link removed])
By Alberto Mingardi
The Complex Relationship between Democracy and Freedom ([link removed])
By Randall G. Holcombe
Twelve Book Reviews Including...
When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice ([link removed]) *
By Jason Brennan
Reviewed by Gary Chartier
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Was Jesus a Socialist? Why This Question Is Being Asked Again, and Why the Answer Is Almost Always Wrong ([link removed]) *
By Lawrence W. Reed
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples
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America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding ([link removed]) *
By Robert R. Reilly
Reviewed by William J. Watkins, Jr.
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous ([link removed]) *
By Joseph Henrich
Reviewed by David Gordon, Ying Tang
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