In this issue

The Future of the Economy: 19 contributors make predictions about regulation, entitlements, the sharing economy, bitcoin, the connected home, business cycles, self-fulfilling prophecies, pessimistic optimism, American liberty, and more. Also in this issue: Alternatives to the FDIC, and Mises and Hildebrand: Remarkable Parallels. Books reviewed: How China Became Capitalist (R. Coase & N. Ning); Wealth, Poverty and Politics (T. Sowell); The Fair Trade Scandal (N. Sylla); The Hobbit Party (J. Witt & J. Richard); Asteroid Mining 101 (J. Lewis); Does Altruism Exist? (D. Wilson); The Leadership Crisis and the Free Market Cure (J. Allison); The End of Socialism (J. Otteson).

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