Reviews in Governance & Society

What Counts as Progress? Rethinking the East Asian Miracle through Bryan Cheang’s Comparative Lens

Review of Bryan Cheang, Economic Liberalism and the Developmental State: Hong Kong and Singapore’s Post-War Development (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, hardcover …

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The Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the Open Society

Gaus, Gerald, The Open Society and Its Complexities, Oxford University Press, 2021.   By Nick Cowen   The modal academic …

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Beyond Incentives: Grappling with the Problem of Policymaker Ignorance

Scheall, Scott. F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics. Routledge, 2020.   We often …

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Hayek Reimagined: Confronting Political Capitalism in the 21st Century

Samrudha Surana and Dr. Prashant Narang reviews Vikash Yadav's book Liberalism’s Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism.

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Beyond positivism: radical uncertainty, complexity, and the limits of probabilistic knowledge

Research Fellow Dr. Pablo Paniagua reviews John Kay and Mervyn King's Radical Uncertainty

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Richard Wagner, Macroeconomics as Systems Theory (Springer, 2020)

Dr. Aris Trantidis reviews Richard Wagner's Macroeconomics as Systems Theory

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Humanity’s ‘Hidden Spring’

Review of Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Robin Douglass (Princeton, 2023) What holds society together? Why do humans …

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Daniel Loick, The Abuse of Property (MIT Press, 2023)

Extinction Rebellion hijacks public spaces in a bid to hijack newspaper headlines. Its pitch for public attention comes with a …

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Dean, Mitchell & Zamora, Daniel, The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of the Revolution (Verso, 2021)

Review of Dean, Mitchell & Zamora, Daniel, The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of the Revolution (Verso, …

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B. Caldwell and H. Klausinger, Hayek: A Life 1899-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2023)

Review of B. Caldwell and H. Klausinger, Hayek: A Life 1899-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2023) This is the first …

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Martin Wolf, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Penguin, 2023)

Why is democratic capitalism in crisis? Review of Martin Wolf, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (Penguin, 2023) Martin Wolf’s excellent …

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Siniša Malešević, Why Humans Fight. The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Stathis N. Kalyvas reviews Siniša Malešević's Why Humans Fight

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