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Winter 2016

Vol. 36 No. 1

Edited by James A. Dorn

Unintended Consequences of Government Intervention: Essays in Honor of Richard K. Vedder

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Editor’s Note

By James A. Dorn

Introduction: Unintended Consequences of Government Intervention

By Joshua C. Hall and Jason E. Taylor

Reflections on the Current State of Political Economy

By Richard K. Vedder

Occupational Licensing and Interstate Migration

By Sean E. Mulholland and Andrew T. Young

The Unintended Consequences of the War on Poverty

By Lowell Gallaway and Daniel G. Garrett

Has the War between the Rent Seekers Escalated?

By Russell S. Sobel and Joshua C. Hall

A New Measure for the Variation of State Tax Prices

By Michael D. Stroup and Keith E. Hubbard

Fiscal Contraction and Economic Expansion: The 2013 Sequester and Post–World War II Spending Cuts

By Jason E. Taylor and Ronald L. Klingler

Young and Out of Work: An Analysis of Teenage Summer Employment, 1972–2012

By J. Wilson Mixon Jr. and E. Frank Stephenson

New Evidence on the Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Productivity and Population Growth

By Michael J. Hicks, Michael LaFaive, and Srikant Devaraj

The Dismal Productivity Trend for K−12 Public Schools and How to Improve It

By Benjamin Scafidi

Richard Vedder and the Future of Higher Education Reform

By Jayme S. Lemke and William F. Shughart II

Subnational Economic Freedom and Performance in the United States and Canada

By Daniel L. Bennett

Book Reviews

The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek

By Adam Bates

The Prize: Who’s in Charge of Americas’s Schools? by Dale Rusakoff

By Kevin Currie-Knight

Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America’s Young by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Jared Meyer

By Aloysius Hogan, Esq. and John Martin

Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell

By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.

The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America by Arthur Brooks

By Roger Pilon

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putnam

By Matt Warner

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