The Independent Review Magazine - Spring 2018

In this issue

Blockchain innovations such as Bitcoin can foster peer-to-peer trust without the need for a third-party enforcer, including private alternatives to traditional government services. Also in this issue: Rise of the regulatory state and the decline of markets for blood. Government incentives gone wrong. Wicksell’s influence on Buchanan and public choice economics. Is support for capitalism declining around the world? The forgotten man (and woman) on the fiscal commons. Fundamental problems with Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’. Forgotten lessons of great economists. Ideology and political divisiveness. Book review topics: The case against cash. Life in the Soviet police state. American bureaucracy. How employers rule our lives. Taxpayer pride. Political economy of public debt. Government insiders vs. the public interest.

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