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Ideas in political economy

Anna Carabelli (Piemonte Orientale) and Mario A. Cedrini (Turin): Globalization and Keynes's Ideal of a “Sounder Political Economy between All Nations”. Mohammad Amin (World Bank) and Simeon Djankov New Economic School (NES): Democracy and Regulatory Reforms. William F. Shughart II and Diana Weinert Thomas (Utah State): What Did Economists Do? Euvoluntary, Voluntary, and Coercive Institutions for Collective Action. Manuel Worsdorfer (Frankfurt): Von Hayek and Ordoliberalism on Justice. Richard Bronk (LSE): Hayek on the Wisdom of Prices: A Reassessment. Roger D. Congleton (West Virginia): The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan. Alexander William Salter (George Mason): James Buchanan and Contractarian Anarchy. Vlad Tarko (George Mason): The Role of Ideas in Political Economy. Peter J. Boettke (George Mason): What Should Classical Liberal Political Economists Do?; and Milton and Rose Friedman’s Free to Choose and its Impact in the Global Movement Toward Free Market Policy: 1979-2003. David Gauthier (Pittsburgh): Achieving Pareto-Optimality: Invisible Hands, Social Contracts, and Rational Deliberation. Luis Boscan reviews Inventing the Market: Smith, Hegel and Political Theory by Liza Herzog. From Rationality, Markets and Morals, Danny Frederick on why social contract theory should be abandoned. Paul Weithman reviews Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, ed. Martin O'Neill and Thad Williamson.