In this issue

Why the slaughter of the North American bison is not an example of “the tragedy of the commons.” Also in this issue: American higher education before the Civil War was not free of government intervention, why the U.S. government will eventually default on the national debt, a symposium on historically successful presidential economic policies, Robert Higgs analogizes government dependency, and two book reviews.

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